tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77861106556401775482024-03-12T19:26:09.934-07:00Tinderbox CeramicsThis a a blog for sharing inspiration for all things ceramicky ;)Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-35227418342343030942017-01-15T06:50:00.000-08:002017-01-18T10:47:49.513-08:00In Situ<span style="font-size: large;">Well it's about that time of year again for my yearly blogpost, although one of my New Year resolutions (AGAIN!) is to try to keep this blog more up-to-date. Maybe this year I will actually succeed ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway it has been a busy year in the Tinderbox! Firstly, I was very excited to be able to join a new artist's collective based in Cork called Over The Line Studios. It is really the first studio in Cork which actually provides for ceramicists, and we have access to a range of kilns and individual spaces large enough to cope with the general chaos which seems to be generated by anyone who works with clay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As well as ceramics we also have a mix of artists working with various media such as painting, photography, textiles and sculpture, which is great for learning new skills and bouncing ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The studios are situated over a kitchen showroom where beautiful high-spec kitchens are on display. For our opening group show it was decided we would be showing our pieces inside the kitchens, which took a while for some of us to get our heads around. What...no white walls? No PLINTHS??? How is our stuff going to work in a room full of shiny marble and MIRRORS?? However, once we had freed ourselves from our mental straight jackets we could see how exciting and different the possibilities were. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was entitled In Situ, as the work was, obviously, being shown in situ, and bar the odd crash and heart-breaking smash it was a roaring success, and firmly put OverTheLineStudios on the Cork art scene. There was lots of wine, there was music, there was dancing and it was great to discover how well we could all pull together as a team when it mattered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyhoo, here are some pics of the work on display. If any of you are ever in Cork and fancy popping in to the studios to say hi, please do! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We found this old toolbox our rambling one day and it took a couple of years of subconscious festering before I finally decided what to do with it. Basically a chicken escaped and laid it's eggs in a tool box. I got the idea from a painting hanging in the Crawford Art Gallery of a basketful of eggs. Not sure who painted it, nor am I sure how my mind managed to make a connection to the toolbox but hey ho that is what happened and here are the results ;)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The black ceramic beach stones with white stripes in this piece were inspired by the beautiful stones on one of my favourite beaches here in Cork. Obsidian? Quartz? Geology is not my strong point but I would like to find our more ;)</span></td></tr>
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One of the prizes that fortuitous night was the CIT Registrar's Prize, which is bestowed by the head bigwig of the college our art college was affiliated to. He has a keen eye and normally, we had been told, favours landscape painters so it was quite a shock to bag that one. The prize was a solo show up in the main CIT campus, complete with all marketing and curating covered and no commission charged on the work. Wow. I was bowled over at the generosity of the prize, while at the same time I was thrown into a flat-spin panic. My fourth year show had, amazingly, been pretty much a sell-out. I didn't have anything left for a solo show. I had a job which I was due to go back to full-time, no studio, and, probably more importantly, I was completely burnt out. I was looking forward to a holiday and not having to think about ceramics for a while. Fourth year, for me, had been a trial by fire. I had spent the year fighting with myself, aware I was on the cusp of something but being unable to articulate what it was exactly as everything I was doing was purely instinctive. I knew that I would get there, I always had faith in this, somehow, but I wasn't sure when it would happen, and it certainly wasn't happening fast enough for my tutors ;)<br />
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Luckily I was also offered a three month graduate residency at the Sculpture Factory in Cork, which threw me a lifeline for which I am eternally grateful, and I met some wonderful people there. It allowed me time to think and tinkle, and although most of the time I was there was spent preparing for another group exhibition the work I did there fed into the solo show. I was able to build on the ideas I had started in fourth year and really see where I was going.<br />
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After the residency was over I still wasn't ready, however, and the clock was ticking. I really didn't want my first solo show to be cobbled together from the scraps left over from other things. I wanted it to be a cohesive culmination of ideas that I felt happy with. When Kevin, who was coordinating the show, rang to see how I was doing I ended up panicking down the phone to him and telling him there would be no way I would be ready in time and would it be possible to postpone it by, say, a year?? He was wonderfully understanding, however, came round on his bicycle one evening for a cup of tea and calmed me right down. It was agreed that the show would take place in October 2014 (yes, I know, I am very late in writing this post!), which gave me an extra seven months from when it was originally supposed to be.<br />
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Phew. When it was time to leave the sculpture factory I moved operations to our largely redundant front room in the house I shared with four other incredibly tolerant housemates ( as one of them remarked, while observing the mess of tree trunks and bits of metal "it's like the outside has come inside..."). I wasn't prepared, however, for how hard the next few months would turn out to be.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'River Ring' - found metal ring, saggar-fired stoneware, bicycle spoke, driftwood</td></tr>
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I teach English as a day job. Whilst preparing for the solo show I requested that my hours were cut so that I was only teaching in the mornings and had the afternoon to make ceramics. I have long held a theory, however, that it is actually really difficult to switch between the two sides of your brain in one day. Teaching uses the left, art uses the right. If I had the whole day to purely concentrate on one or the other everything seemed to come much more easily. Switching from one to the other in the same day is exhausting. I soon fell into a pattern of napping in the afternoons after work and then working at the ceramics until the early hours. The weekends were spent purely in the front room. Summer slipped tantalisingly past outside the window and I felt increasingly tetchy and claustrophobic. My relationship suffered, as my boyfriend at the time who is immensely talented and who helped me a lot with the wood and metal and drilling and soldering and all the things I wasn't so good at, became more and more impatient with the length of my fuse and what he viewed as my chaotic disorganisation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Churn' - found metal milk churn with black stoneware and sawdust-fired terracotta</td></tr>
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However, by a combination of luck and sheer bloody-mindedness everything came together in the end and was, by all accounts, a success. The photographs here are not so successful, unfortunately, but you can hopefully get an idea ;) I am aware that this post might sound a bit ungrateful but that is not my intention. I am extremely grateful to everyone who had faith in me when I didn't. I have been amazed at how my work has been accepted by a wider audience and how supportive everyone has been. It has been the encouragement I needed to keep going and without that I might still not be making, because the purpose I suppose of this post and the reason it has taken me so long to write it is that it is hard to admit that creating art is HARD. It has, for me, been one of the hardest things I have ever done. For anyone who thinks that art students are dossers who don't do any work, try doing an art degree. It will challenge everything you have ever known about yourself. It will shake you to your core, make you question everything you thought you were capable of. It will force you to excavate the depths of yourself and believe me that ain't pretty half the time. And then at the end you have to lay everything out on the table and allow yourself to be judged. This, for me, is probably the hardest part. I am not naturally a 'look at me!' kind of person. Being an artist requires you to do that. It requires that you put yourself out there and, effectively, sell yourself to the highest bidder. You have to put your work out in the public eye and weather the reaction, whether positive or negative. And as your work is usually a result of some serious soul-mining, that is a pretty scary thing to do. .I also always felt like if the solo show wasn't any good I would be letting a lot of people down, all these people who had put their faith and resources in me, and that felt like a lot of pressure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Driftwood Boat' - found bog yew with saggar-fired stoneware</td></tr>
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On top of that, try doing an art degree in ceramics and then try being taken seriously as an artist. Ceramics has long been considered the lowest of the low. It is, apparently, a combination of skill and function. It has no place in fine art. Every year representatives come from the RDS in Dublin to check out fourth year work. They looked at mine and informed me that there would be no point in applying for the RDS. When I asked why not they said that they either had a category for fine art or one for craft, and wouldn't know where to put me. I said I don't see why mine can't be considered fine art, and they said it was because I had used clay. Apparently it is ok to use paint, metal, rubber, wool, anything, really, apart from one of the most versatile substances on Earth. (Sorry, rant over ;))<br />
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Drift was a show about our relationship with our environment. It explored how nature attempts to break down our waste products and how the results can be unexpectedly beautiful, and it celebrated the natural beauty of the wild coastlines of where I am lucky enough to live, in the South West of Ireland. It remains the result of someone who struggled innately with herself to produce it, and to all intents and purposes it is something I can finally say I am proud of. It is, I hope, part of an awakening which I think has been happening recently, that is the perception of ceramics as an art form rather than a craft. It is also a testament to everyone who helped me achieve this, and to everyone who kept me going when I wanted to give up, and I will always be thankful for that ;)<br />
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<br />Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-36171143731586856422016-01-02T12:17:00.000-08:002016-01-02T14:38:36.664-08:00Glasgow Ceramics Studio Residency<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well one of my New Year resolutions is to keep this blog more up to date, and as it has only taken me a year to write this post I feel I am not doing too badly so far ;) In 2013 I was offered a graduate residency in the Glasgow Ceramics Studio for six months by the wonderful Susan O'Byrne, so after I had got the solo show out of the way and had been kindly funded by the Arts Council I stuffed my life into the back of my birdshit green car and hotfooted it back to my native Scotland.<br />
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Glasgow in January is cooooollllld. So cold in fact that the first person I met when I arrived at the WASPS studios was a snowman, leaning drunkenly over and wearing a rather fetching beanie hat. However I was warmly greeted by Emilke, one of the studio members, and shown around. Located just to the East of the centre in Dennistoun, the WASPS building is an old tobacco factory which has been converted into studios for more than 140 artists. Home was a cosy flat above the studios which I shared with two painters (both whisky drinkers, which was good ;)). The ceramics studio is home to 18 ceramicists and has a wealth of facilities including six different kilns and a range of wheels. Everyone was lovely and very supportive and I was given my own space and free rein to do what I wanted, which after all the pressures of the previous year was exactly what I needed.<br />
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The first couple of weeks I spent just reacquainting myself with the city. I used to live in Glasgow but it had been several years since I had been back for any length of time, and I was more familiar with the West side than the East. I visited several museums and galleries, ate a lot of macaroni cheese ( a Glasgow staple...you will find it on every menu in every restaurant) and did a lot of street pounding, muffled up against the wind. Down past the soot-blackened buildings of the Saltmarket, the Barrowlands, the Gallowgate, the old Fruitmarket, Rottenrow, Merchant City...wonderful names that beat like drums in your brain... the views from the Necropolis, following the River Clyde through Glasgow Green and over the bridge into the Gorbals.<br />
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I was also given the opportunity to visit the Glasgow School of Art post-fire as my friend Christabel Geary (wonderful stuff - check her out ;)) had an exhibition on while I was there as part of her Masters degree. My father studied there, a well as a good few of my friends, and it had been extremely saddening to hear of the fire and the loss of the library in particular. It still smelled a bit smoky, but it was great to see art still being produced and the determination of the students to carry on. There was a great sense of everyone pulling together which was encouraging.</div>
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I also started revisiting artists who I love, one of whom is Joan Eardley, a firm family favourite. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art and in the 1950's produced colourful collaged paintings of Glasgow street children, highlighting inner city poverty at that time. She had a wonderfully free expressive style which charged the canvas with life, and later she moved to Catterline which is a small fishing village near to where I grew up, and painted the force of the storms on the landscape there.</div>
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I wanted to take some of this energy and apply it to ceramics. Usually I love smoke-firing and shy away from glazing, as I find Nature usually does a far better job of decorating than I do, and glazing is so often a disappointment (in my case, anyway ;)). However, I thought I would take advantage of the fact that for once I wasn't under any pressure to produce anything to a deadline and that I was free to play and experiment, and I had great facilities at my disposal, so I began to muck about with different printing processes and glazes and just had fun. Most of the work I produced while in Glasgow was flat so that I could transport it easily, and some of it ended up being jewellery (which can be seen on the facebook page...etsy shop to follow!). Mainly, however, the work was about trying to shake myself out of the shackles of college and what I thought I was expected to produce. For me, art is about pushing the boundaries and exploring as much as possible. I don't want to have to keep producing the same kind of stuff all the time. That might gain me a measure of success but to my mind it doesn't make me an artist, and I don't measure my worth in the number of pots I sell. You can spend a lifetime learning about clay. There are any number of techniques and processes which invite experimentation, and therein lies the excitement and joy of it for me.</div>
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Having said all of that, you will no doubt find me covered again with sawdust and copper carbonate before too long ;) Happy mudding ;)</div>
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Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-59674111038083094172014-04-29T08:09:00.001-07:002014-05-05T00:43:22.018-07:00Beyond The Ha-HaCor well I can't believe I haven't been near this blog for almost a year. So much has happened! Since I finished college I have been pretty busy trying to learn how to be a proper artist ha. I was awarded a three month graduate residency in the National Sculpture Factory here in Cork, which was really exciting. I have just finished my stint there and am currently showing work in a group show called Beyond the Ha-Ha, so I thought I would share a little bit of my new work with you.<br />
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We had a wild winter, so the beaches were awash with all sorts of rubbish. This was good news for a bin-raking beachcomber like me, so I filled my poor groaning car with sackfuls of crap and loads of interesting driftwood and hauled it all home to Tinderbox HQ, i.e our shed ;)<br />
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My good friend Amy and I spent about a week making loads of plaster moulds of beach stones so that I could make a whole heap of ceramic stones. Some of them I saggar-fired, and some were made of terracotta and sawdust-fired, and I also discovered black porcelain for the first time which is gorgeous stuff to work with. I had fun trying to balance the stones of top of one another in different formations;<br />
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One of my favourite finds was a stove top which was all rusted. I fell in love with the shape of it and would have been quite happy to just show it on its own as I think it is beautiful, however it was further enhanced by the addition of some of the black and red stones:<br />
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One glorious evening I decided to take some of the new stuff down to the beach and do a photoshoot. The light was wonderful and luckily I managed to get loads of pictures just before the tide came in oof that would have been a disaster ha ;)</div>
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I also wanted to get some driftwood in there, so I made a saggar-fired hanging piece with a particularly lovely flat piece:</div>
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Anyway the show is running until the 4th of May in the Wandesford Quay Gallery, so if any of you are around Cork please do pop in. There are also more ceramics on display, as well as paintings and sculpture. In the meantime I shall be keeping busy with my first solo show in October (eek!) and trying to keep a lid on the panic ;) Your comments are, as always, most welcome ;)</div>
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<br />Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-5374654496918515352013-05-19T07:06:00.000-07:002013-05-19T08:17:05.426-07:00Axeheads and DriftwoodCor well I am limping to the end of this year...only one and a half weeks to go before assessments and I still have quite a few sculptures to make when the pieces come out of the kiln eek! Still, I am really going to miss this college as it has been an amazing time, and I just hope I can find a way to keep making after I finish.<br />
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I thought I would share some of the pieces which will be going into the final exhibition ( I hope!) There is still more to come but these are a few that are actually finished ahem...;)<br />
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I became somewhat fascinated by axeheads last term. There is something lovely about their swooping shapes and once saggar-fired they look lovely with the silver birch.<br />
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This term took me on a hunt for more seasoned wood and I ended up on the beach hunting for driftwood. I found some lovely pieces of wood and an old washed up frame, so I decided to try and do something with them.</div>
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A friend of mine also hauled these two pieces off the beach for me...they are massive and were very wet and soft, but I have scooped them out and dried them off and sanded them, so hopefully will be able to use them for something ;)</div>
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All the plastic I found on the beach will be made into wall pieces with the ceramic discs, and I have made hanging discs with ceramic versions of the plastic to highlight their colours.</div>
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And I made a couple more with some driftwood and shells...</div>
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And a dish, for good measure ;)</div>
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Anyhoo, hopefully it will all come together in the end and not look like a complete dog's dinner...there could well be more culling to come before the final cut, but I've enjoyed the journey I've been on this year and there are elements of the work here which I would like to expand upon in the future.</div>
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If any of you are in Cork and would be interested in coming to the exhibition, feel free, as it is free and there will also be free booze available ;) It is on the 7th June in the Crawford College of Art, and more information can be found here...</div>
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There were lots of animals this year, however I especially love Stephanie Quayle's lifesize ones, which are sculpted from heavily grogged clay and bursting with animal quirkiness:<br />
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Other highlights for me included wondrously slapdash colourful works by Elke Sada and Barry Stedman, and these beautiful vessels by Clare Conrad which evoke the kind of peeling paint and decaying surfaces I love:</div>
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There were also gorgeous smoky vessels from the likes of Jack Docherty, Antonia Salmon and Joanna Still, stunning jewellery from Luca Tripaldi and a whole host of other wonderful works by artists too numerous to mention. However, I would thoroughly recommend a visit if you ever get the chance. I only went for one day this year, however I did manage to catch a talk by Adam Buick where he talked about a film he had made where he stuck one of his unfired moon jars on top of a hillside in Wales and photographed it every 33 seconds for 10 days. The pot slowly weathered away under the onslaught of the elements, and the resulting film is quite beautiful. Entitled <i>Earth to Earth</i>, here is a link to a clip of it:<br />
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Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-40292474516822888642013-03-10T06:19:00.000-07:002013-03-10T06:36:52.368-07:00Plastic Soup<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hmm so I have been woefully neglecting this blog lately as have been bogged down with thesis, work and college stuff and sometimes it doesn't seem to matter how fast you go you never seem to be able to catch up. However, I thought I could share some of the stuff I've been working on lately with you. I have been indulging in a spot of beachcombing, again, recently and I have been horrified by the amount of plastic to be found. The beaches in East Cork are covered in the stuff. The plastic lies like bright pops of colour amongst the seaweed, bottles, old ropes and fishing nets that also litter our beaches. They are sea-worn and very smooth, and strangely beautiful even though the presence of it in such large amounts is extremely disturbing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whilst googling the possible causes of all this plastic, I came across this guy Jurga Rakau, who has recently spent six months photographing plastic on Irish beaches that apparantly originates from all the immense masses of crap floating around our oceans. <a href="http://www.source.ie/graduate/2012/grifcollba/grifcollba_student_15_55_05_09-05-12/grifcollba_student_15_55_05_09-05-12.php">(Source)</a></span></div>
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<br />Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-40935434050903424602013-02-07T08:45:00.000-08:002013-02-08T02:11:09.816-08:00Ship's horns<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Da de dum so continuing with my obsession of all things mariner, I wanted to try and make some ship's horns out of clay. This proved to be quite difficult, however, so they became a kind of hotch potch of clay, metal and plaster, with some spray paint thrown in for good measure ;) Originally I wanted them to speak, maybe bellowing out sea shanties in a drunk-on-rum kind of way, but I didn't want any technology to be visible so I ended up abandoning the idea. I took some abstract pictures of the Cork Docklands, however, and painstakingly collaged them with lasertran (not an ideal task for a person, such as myself, not too well-versed in the art of patience ;0)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I guess it's good to know that ceramics isn't just about plates and cups and ashtrays...clay can be whatever you want it to be, which is the fun part ;) Thank you for reading this, until next time! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-51073666506768082152013-02-06T10:34:00.001-08:002013-02-08T02:11:45.726-08:00Buoys<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I live near the Cork Docklands and I love watching the huge ships go past my bedroom window on their way in and out of the port. I have taken probably thousands of photographs of the Docklands, partly because the area is prime real estate and all the old warehouses and grain stores are in danger of being demolished to make way for riverside apartments and swanky hotels, but also because there is just so much cool stuff there. There is a wealth of inspiration for textures, colours and shapes to be found. For a start, there is all this mad machinery. I am always more interested in a machine if I can't immediately guess what it's for...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I was also inspired by Betty Blandino's gorgeous textured vessels, and the dreamy quality of Adam Buick's moon jars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I started making buoys of various sizes and using different coloured clays in an attempt to capture the haunting feeling and the changing moods of the Docklands. Some of these were glazed, some saggar-fired in a raku kiln, some smoke-fired in a beer barrel which had had the top cut off ;):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some of them definitely proved more successful than others, however ceramics are always a case of trial and error, I think ;)Anyhoo, if you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me. Thank you! ;)</span></div>
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Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-67281562749957207422013-02-04T02:10:00.000-08:002013-02-08T02:13:29.580-08:00Standing Stones<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I was born on an island called Arran on the West Coast of Scotland, which is a completely wild place, with nothing much there apart from sea, mountains, deer and sheep. And seals, of course. Love seals ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is a place called King's Caves on the North side of the island, which is a group of caves hidden along the shoreline. It's where Robert the Bruce is said to have met the spider, although there are lots of caves in Scotland where he is said to have met the spider. Maybe he just met a lot of spiders. Anyway, there is certainly enough room to hide a few horses in these caves. Inside the caves, mixed in with all the graffiti, are some actual ancient cave paintings which you can see if you bring a torch, which is quite exciting. What I really love about this place, however, is that some local guy comes down and builds these stone towers all over the shoreline outside the caves (probably, admittedly, because there's not much else to do...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Arran is a great mecca for geologists, and there are all types of rocks here, from great sculptural sea-whipped sandstone formations to hard granite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Arran is also littered with Pagan worshipping sites, with fairy dells and standing stones all over the place. The most famous of these are the great standing stones on Machrie Moor, which are located in a great bleak valley surrounded by mountains. Depending on the weather and the time of day, they can either feel extremely foreboding and ominous or really sun-warmed and friendly, but it is always apparent how ancient they are, and I have long been fascinated by them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ireland, of course, has lots of standing stones too, and here in Cork we have the Ogham Stones, which are housed in the University College Cork. Stones like these were found all over the coast line of Ireland, as well as in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. The Irish ones were inscribed in ancient primitive Irish, usually with people's names and the tribes they belonged to. They are kind of like an ancient form of Who's Who. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I started making my own ceramic versions of standing stones, scored and textured like the Ogham stones and vertically jagged like the Arran ones. I cut them into pieces and fired the pieces separately, then reassembled them so they were not all one colour. They were saggar-fired in a raku kiln and mounted on slate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm hoping they give off a bit of the brooding presence of the Machrie Moor standing stones. Spooky...;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Tinderbox Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276478706560977259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7786110655640177548.post-33801211444523670922013-02-03T07:59:00.003-08:002013-02-08T02:14:18.763-08:00Beach Combing Rambles<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hmm well I started this blog in order to share my love of all things earthy. I'm in the final year of a ceramics degree at the Crawford School of Art in Cork, Ireland, and I'd like to be able to share some of the things which inspire me, and hopefully be inspired. I will also no doubt go off on a complete tangent at times as am quite prone to pointless ramblings, but hey ho ;) I'm completely new to blogging, so will see how it goes, but I think it will be fun ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Recently I've been doing a lot of beach combing (which is where I met this lovely horse)...it's amazing what you can find washed up on the beach. Quite baffling too...how do giant tyres get there?? However I found some lovely pieces of driftwood, which I took home and washed, dried and sanded, and then finished off with beeswax. They look lovely...can get gorgeous colours in driftwood, but not sure what I will do with them yet!If I had the power of ten men and maybe access to a shire horse I could have hauled this home, but I don't, so I couldn't ha ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It does look a bit like a person who's been on the sauce and toppled over, but it did have some lovely speckly patterns in it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I also picked up some stones, which I think might be a little bit illegal but nevermind ;) I'm a little bit addicted to stones...especially really smooth, sea-polished ones because they feel really comforting in your hand, and ones with mad shapes and stripes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These ones were saggar-fired in aluminium in a gas kiln, with seaweed, sawdust, copper wire, steel wool, salt and copper carbonate. I love the way the fire plays over the surface to give these effects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anyhoo, that's it for now as am feeling the need for caffeine. Hope you've enjoyed reading this, and any comments, discussions or suggestions are most welcome ;)</span></div>
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