Eusebio Sanchez: Selected works, 2019-2021
I celebrate the prehistoric method of hand-building coiling. It is fascinating that this process is rooted in the history of craft and ceramics so profoundly and still plays a crucial role in contemporary making.
Japan’s Neolithic pots made in the Jomon period were very sophisticated and complex. In my practice, I achieve that sophistication, setting myself different exercises to explore form and how far I can stretch the process. Jomon literally means ‘cord marked’ and like in the Jomon culture, I choose to expose the coil revealing the process often hidden in most ceramic works.
I use the coil as a drawing method, by analogy to how draughtsmen use a pencil. I like to think that I am ‘taking a coil for a walk,’ an expression I borrow from Paul Klee’s expression: ‘drawing is taking a line for a walk.’ When making a piece of work, I know where I want to start and have an abstract idea of how I may want it to look. Frequently the job takes me on a material and narrative journey, and as I progress, I make decisions to shape the final form differently from the one I had in mind. I let the form be, and serendipity happens in the search for a new structural complexity.
In a world that is becoming digitalized, I have created a relationship with clay where my hands act like an analog 3D printer. As a result, my sculptures echo the aesthetic of this technology.
Photo captions
- Undercove, 2021, Ceramics, Stoneware, Glazed, 24(H)x40(W)x34(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Undercove, 2021, Ceramics, Stoneware, Glazed, 24(H)x40(W)x34(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Undercove, 2021, Ceramics, Stoneware, Glazed, 24(H)x40(W)x34(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Blue Hues, 2021, Ceramics, Stoneware, Engobe, 23(H)x32(W)x23(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Blue Hues, 2021, Ceramics, Stoneware, Engobe, 23(H)x32(W)x23(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Coil Form, 2021, Ceramics, Stoneware, Engobe, 32(H)x23(W)x30(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Coil Form, 2021, Ceramics, Stoneware, Engobe, 32(H)x23(W)x30(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Coil of Coils, 2021, Porcelain, Stoneware, Glaze, 75(H)x45(W)x20(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Coil of Coils, 2021, Porcelain, Stoneware, Glaze, 75(H)x45(W)x20(D) cm. Photograghy by Eusebio Sanchez
- Coil Journey – Anatomy of a Process, 2019, Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Coil Journey – Anatomy of a Process, 2019, Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Eusebio Sanchez, Portrait, Photography By Jonathan Bassett
- A Convoluted Journey, 2019, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 155(H)x76(W)x40(D) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Exposed, 2019, Ceramics, Engobe, 52(H)x40(W)x18(D) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Exposed, 2019, Ceramics, Engobe, 52(H)x40(W)x18(D) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Foreign Growth, 2019, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 43(H)x23(W)x15(D) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Not from The Aberdeen Bestiary, 2019, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 40(H)x47(D)x25(W) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Not from The Aberdeen Bestiary, 2019, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 40(H)x47(D)x25(W) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- One legged journey, 2019, Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- One legged journey, 2019, Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Swelter, 2019, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 35(H)x17(W)x15(D) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Toes by the shore, 2019, Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze, 158(H)x45(W)x45(W) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Very Brighton, 2019, Ceramics, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe, 143(H)x60(W)x55(D) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
- Very Brighton, 2019, Ceramics, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe, 143(H)x60(W)x55(D) cm. Photography by Jonathan Bassett
