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Article by Sanne Flyvbjerg. It begins with a black-and-white photograph from the 1950s. Danish artist Axel Salto is standing in the old coal kiln in The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory in Copenhagen, looking down at one of his masterpieces, The Core of Power. It is a sculpture, an object, an almost living thing made out of clay.

By Nikhil Purohit As children, we tend to imagine that the clouds are formed by the smoke belching out of the chimneys of an industrial town. A typical iconic sight of the past centuries. The urban sites are often known by what they produce- both industrially and culturally. Neha Gawand Pullarwar, a ceramicist of repute from Mumbai, India, builds her...

The International Competition at Aveiro Museum The 16th International Biennale of Artistic Ceramics, supported by Aveiro City Council and backed by a highly committed (and very female) team, opened its doors on October 28, 2023. With 565 entries received, the event is shaping up to be a great success. It’s a record for this fast-evolving Biennale, marked by an ever-stronger...

By Stephanie Henricks The Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence exhibition, a premier biennial event of Ceramic Arts Queensland, one of Australia's oldest arts organizations, was not just a showcase of excellence in Australian ceramics. It also highlighted the vast depth and breadth of contemporary ceramic practices. Celebrating its seventh edition this year, the 2023 Award has been the most impressive...

By Doug Navarra The first thing I thought about when I first saw works by Jennifer McCandless were active notions of persona and personality. What makes her exhibition Run Amok at A.I.R. Gallery different is this very fact—the show is concept-based—and not center-staged upon materiality. This exhibition is composed primarily of figural works, and if they are not straight-out renderings...

Celebration of Insignificance Celebration of Insignificance A Fully Filled Crystal Lattice Unstable Associations Quality of Missing Everyday Archaeology Everyday Archaeology 6% Humidity, 32 Tons Soul Lake City Objective Point of View Sugar Honey Darling Die Geschwollene Schönheit Next Ex The Whole Heaven NC 000003 VG 12565 II VG 12565 IV Eva Pelechová: Selected works, 2015-2021 Slow Down Meaning - An...

Yuliya Makliuk, a ceramic artist from Ukraine, found herself at the intersection of war and environmental responsibility. While power outages darkened studios and conflict raged, she illuminated a path to sustainable pottery, challenging perceptions and paving the way for a greener future in ceramic art. This is her story of innovation, hope, and a reimagining of ceramic practice. Hello, everyone!...

By Emma S. Ahmad Every art collection has a beginning. A first piece. A story. Developing a collection does not simply involve amassing singular pieces of art that attract your gaze. It entails creating a meaningful grouping of works that mesh together in such a way that expands the potential of each individual work, fabricating something new entirely. Private art...

Daphne Corregan and Gilles Suffren present Revealing the Earth. Histoires de céramique at Musée du Vieil-Aix, Aix-en-Provence and Tuilerie Bossy, Gardanne, France June 16 - November 5, 2023 The exhibition at Tuilerie Bossy will close on September 16, 2023 Nourishing a unique history with provencal ceramics, the Museum du Vieil-Aix and La Tuilerie Bossy (Gardanne) wished to associate to honor...

By Rebecca Lewin Artists working with ceramics constantly face forking paths. To a certain degree, the decisions that they make shape the construction, the form and the surface of the objects they produce, but regardless of the direction taken, an element of uncertainty, even a lack of control, is their constant companion. Ceramics offer the possibility of combining materials and...

By Kamilė Pirštelytė No matter what you read and where you travel, what cultures, arts and mythologies you are interested in, stone and ceramics are at the source of all rivers. Like stone but easier to shape, ceramics are created from earth, water, air, and fire, yet none of these elements can completely destroy it. It has been hidden under...

By Jennifer Zwilling Kristina Riska’s sculptures are deceptively simple. From across the room, the large, undulating vessel forms beckon the viewer with familiarity. As you approach, you feel a resonance with your own body. If we think of ourselves as part of the earth, there is a real connection between our bodies and these person-sized vessels. We are drawn forward...

By Natalie Baerselman le Gros Christie Brown’s figures teeter on the foggy intersection between art and craft. Very clearly sculptural but informed by a deep history of clay. Upon graduating with a diploma in Studio Pottery at Harrow in the early 1980s, Brown found her work without an obvious niche. Alongside her studies in clay, Brown had taken up life...

From the Flip-Side of the Coin. A review of Masaomi Yasunaga's exhibition at Lisson Gallery By Doug Navarra “Unique” is the term that comes to mind when looking at the work of 38-year-old Yasaomi Yasunaga. Unique because nothing in the ceramic world resembles this kind of hybrid, experimental form and approach. In fact, we are told at the outset that...

By Lilianne Milgrom Irit Ovadia Rosenberg would be the first to tell you that she never imagined establishing a ceramic practice amongst the towering pines of New York State’s Catskills mountains, far from the madding crowd of her native New York City. Nestled between the conifers and surrounded by wild fern, her studio barn and cottage gallery provide a serene...

By Theo Harper Abstract By holding on to the idea of ‘origin’, understood in my research as hand-printing clay, I aim to rethink our interactions with technology and automated making. During the past three years, I have been exploring the relationship between hand-coiling clay and 3D printing clay. Hand-printing clay has always been at the origin of my work, it...

By Odette Lopez Contemporary art is a product of art history, a transformation and utilization of the vast repository of images and ideas that came before it. It is a myth that the ancient world and contemporary art have relatively nothing to do with each other. On the contrary, ancient artworks are the foundation of our modern visual and cultural...