Tate St Ives

When visiting my parents in Cornwall for my birthday we visited the Tate at St Ives. I’d never been there before but thought the work and architecture of the gallery itself was very inspiring. I also saw Rebecca Warren’s exhibition there – the majority of this work I felt wasn’t as strong as the work…

Museum Trip

Our new project for this term is typologies and museums. Whilst visiting the National Museum in Cardiff we were asked to look for examples of typologies whilst thinking about a typology we would like to research for this project. I have chosen to look at statues and figurative sculpture as during my foundation course I…

What is Baseart?

The placement I have chosen as part of professional studies is a ceramic studio called Baseart in Taffs Well. This is an artist run studio where artists can use the facilities much like an artist residency as well as running classes for the general public to earn money. Susan Zeppellini runs the studio (previously it…

Throwing a Bowl

In our next lesson we were shown how to throw a bowl – I am actually finding this slightly easier as you don’t have to build up much height. Here are some examples of artists that use thrown bowl forms: I am slowly getting better at centering the clay on the wheel after practicing and…

Throwing a Cylinder

In this lesson Lisa showed us how to throw a simple cylinder shape…I say ‘simple’ but its actually proving to be quite difficult! At the moment I’ve made 4 ‘things’ that resemble a cylinder, however, I still need to work on my centering to help me when it comes to pulling up the walls and…