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 Clementina van der Walt is a well-known South African studio potter, based in Cape Town, who has in the past three decades lectured, run a production studio and held many one-person shows. Her work is represented in several South African national collections. She has participated in major shows abroad including four consecutive years at Ceramic Art London...
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 Sian trained in ceramics at the West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey.
On leaving college she became a ceramics lecturer and teacher as well as continuing with her own work. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Recent work has involved the techniques of throwing, coiling, burnishing, slipping and glazing...
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I create ceramic vessels and small scale sculptural pieces that explore form, line, texture and the interaction of light, shade and colour. Inspiration is drawn from the natural world, the material qualities of clay and the physicality of the making process itself. Working in porcelain for its purity, translucency, and its clear bright colours when glazed...
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 Artist Statement:-
Tina is a studio potter based in London producing one off hand built ceramics.
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"The pots are all made with an eye to the possibility of function, although this is always balanced by the sculptural strengths of the forms. They are pots made contemplatively, for contemplation...
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For the last fifteen years I have been more or less immersed in creating heads; flawed heroes, empowered virgins, or pensive deities, icon like but with iconoclastic human frailties.
I felt they were the ideal vessels for conveying humanity through the material, but they were also my comfort zone. Now I've made a complete departure...
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"I make contemporary vessels which are thrown and modified. I also make sculptural objects which are hand-built using a combination of techniques including coiling, slab-building and pinching. Incised lines are drawn into the damp surface to create a design which counter-points the form...
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