Dutch artist: Paula Bastiaansen

Coral Vessel 8X6X6

Object 2, 2011 H 50 cm

Object, 2009 50 cm

Object, 2010 60 cm

Movement is central to Bastiaanssen's work. Bastiaansen has explored the many problems associated with the use of porcelain. This might be of some interest to Maeve, Zarah or Danielle as her chosen medium is porcelain.

Rebecca Nelemans, an Art Historian, captures the essence of Paula Bastiaansen’s work with the following words:
‘This tactile seduction is swept away by the awareness that any touch would be too rude, too brute for this egg-shell-thin object.
It is exactly that fragility that heightens the spectator’s feeling that he is catching a glimpse of infinity.’ (source: http://www.paulabastiaansen.com/work/unica/unica.html)

Below is a link to a piece I wrote before Christmas about Dutch artist Paula Bastiaansen's work before Christmas.



http://robertdelaneyceramics.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/paula-bastiaansens-work-with-porcelain/

Work in Progress: Autumnal Waters

My work with clay lately has focused on the transition of time. The piece I am working is a rusted cog enveloped in a whirl of water. The idea is that the cog symbolises time, the rust on the cog symbolizes the passing of time and the water which  surrounds the cog creates a continuity between time and the passing of time.

My source piece for this project: a cog

Movement is an important aspect my piece. I want to create a sense of movement and flow to mimic the continuity between time and the passing of time. It was hard to try and mimic the idea of water and the continuity of time into clay.  Dutch artist Paula Bastiaansen work captures movement effortlessly and elegantly.  Her works helped me to convey the movement of water in my project.

 The colour of the glazes I used give an aged look to the piece. The glaze I chose for the cog give a aged, torn, bent and rusted look to the cog. I choose autumnal colours for the glazes. There is a matt like finish to the glazes. I plan on experimenting more with the glazes for the water of my piece.

Autumnal Waters

I chose the title ‘Autumnal Waters’ for this piece. Changes in seasons marks the passing of time. The colours of this piece are autumnal. Water is the link in my piece between the past and the present. I feel the title captures the essence of this project.

Susan Meyer: Plato's Retreat

Plato's Retreat

Susan Meyer is a Denver based ceramic artist. Meyers  Plato’s Retreat is influenced by Brutalist architecture and Corbusier’s machine for living.  This piece has both sculpture and video.

Her work is geometric, similar to modernist architecture.

Architecture and nature are side by side. The piece echoes a sense of abandonment and of not belonging. You feel as if people had lived there and left a foot print of their presence.

There is beauty in the harness of the piece. Light strokes of colour and green trees bring life to Meyer’s work.

‘Alluding to landscape, architecture and folly, Meyer creates visually and metaphorically rich sculptural works that reflect the fluctuations of our culture’ (http://www.artaxis.org/statements/meyer-susan.pdf). 

Below is other examples of Meyer's work

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'Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants': learning from other artists.

Amy gave an insight into artist Kristin Schimik. Schimik work focuses on the transformation of clay through time. This is relevant to my work in the sense that my work focuses on the transformation of a piece over time. In my work the rust on the cog shows this transformation.

Kristin Schimik

Amy also talked of Japanese born artist Shoji Satake. Nature is central to his work just as nature has always been central to my work with clay. 

Shoji Satake

Novie Trump an artist that Dominic explored the cycles of life in his work. He explained how Trump crafts 'intimate narratives that explore the cycles of life in nature'. The title of the piece that I am working on at the moment is called "Autumnal Waters". Autumn to me is symbolic of a cycle of life. I like also how there is movement in Trumps piece by the way the ceramic pieces hang by a thread in the image above. Movement features in my work through the use of water as a link between the old and the new, as a marking of time.

Novie Trump. 

Erica Iman, an artist featured on Saoirse's blog mimics the processes of nature. I find it interesting the way Iman pieces seem to almost be eroded by time. This would be relevant to my work.

Erica Iman

Molly featured the artist J.J Mc Cracken on her blog. She writes how Mc Craken's work focuses 'on the living experience - making and consuming, loss and the passage of time. Again the passage of time is of interest to my work and how other artists convey the passage of time. 

J.J. MC Cracken