The idea of Kidda Kups came after  looking through the inspiration of artists and gathering my ideas to form one general consensus of my work was aiming towards the themes of clay and narrative-so this was something i would need to play with. There was just one question that keeps reoccurring and that was should... Continue Reading →

Today I spoke to screen print technician Simon about the possibility of using LCC facilities to print on clay. After some discussion and a quick update of Stoke, we discovered that in fact there were two main methods in which to transfer imagery onto clay. The first being digital. This would involve printing the decal... Continue Reading →

Talked to Ling (print technician) and she was making connections between pottery normally being a quite organic method, so making and creating stone lithography to go on plates will be a challenging process but one to look at as a challenge. Cathie Bleck I like the idea that these stories were left to me by... Continue Reading →

In correspondence to the methodology of my Aunt, I wanted to make and create something in which supported her method but also maybe took a turn with my location. With the Metro being similar to that as a plate in its sense of hands, eyes and opinions its received, i thought it would be exciting... Continue Reading →

"Brexit Ware is a Brill-based project recording on china some of the politics of Britain today. Harriet Coles' work is in the centuries-old tradition of political pottery. She uses classic designs of antique blue and white china to depict Brexit as it unfolds. She works from an old brick kiln in the village using bone... Continue Reading →

The art work of Burleigh Pottery inspired by Japanese art is the pot bank not far down the road from me. The Middleport pot bank is the producer of this style and thanks to Prince Charles who has been adding funds to it over the years has kept it alive. Here are some of the... Continue Reading →

Yang Yongliang - Phantom Landscape Looking into this artist allowed me to question what art form on the pottery is Stoke known for and how could i maybe incorporate this into taking about the idea's and stories of the plates or earthwards provenance. Then it struck me. Burleigh Pottery produced at the local pot bank... Continue Reading →

Aesthetically if i were to singularly make a vase of my aunty i would like to think that the ascetic could be based of something. - cigarette packaging. - made up narrative- Colour here is something i would love to take inspiration from as i like how this was where narrative was somewhat placed onto... Continue Reading →

In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the... Continue Reading →

'I Object' Ian Hislop's search for Dissent at the British Museum. Date visited Wednesday 03/October/2018. "History, as somebody wise once said, is just one damned thing after another. But is it really? Who decides what is ‘history’? Traditionally, the answer is ‘the winners’. But in this exhibition we’re setting out to investigate what the other... Continue Reading →

The main theme behind my work was not to anthropomorphise the ceramics into a human, but more allow people to realise the person behind the craft. We have Warhol exhibition's, Haring Exhibitions, and i believe that this is because there work is classed as revolutionary in a form to represent the modern day emotion, whereas... Continue Reading →