Ceramics Art & Perception

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vallauris has hosted an International Biennale dedicated to ceramics since 1966, though the town has been associated with pottery making since Roman times. It is probably best known for its role in...

Among those deeming themselves ceramics progressives it has of late become customary, if not exactly mandatory, to cultivate a certain lament, namely that the field of contemporary ceramics lacks a serious and sustained critical disposition to complement...

The jurying of the Ceramics of Europe--Keramik Europas Westerwaldpreis 2009 in Hohrgrenzhausen, Germany has been completed with over 700 entries from the continent. Beginning in 1973 and awarded every five years, this year marks the 12th anniversary...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The City of Liverpool, at the time of writing this article, is continuing its year as European City of Culture: a meaningful accolade for a city in the process of rejuvenation that has had its full share of creativity in so...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What creates the artistic expression in ceramic art is the language of authentic form. And the common point that brings ceramic artists together is the material and the options this material gives to artists. One can also...

In the tradition of AESOP, Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) projected the panoply of 17th century French society onto the animal kingdom. The lion in his Fables, for example, stands for the absolute monarch, Louis XIV; and the wily fox, skilled in the...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Throughout her career, Marian Heyerdahl has focused her research on the connection between life and art. Her sculptures and installations, devoted to themes like birth and fertility, life and death, draw inspiration from the...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mysterious and disturbing, the alien, hybrid forms I create speak of things both strange and familiar. Seemingly tranquil but possessing an underlying sense of darkness and danger they inhabit undefined spaces--as if in a...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The objects, the 'bowls' of Paula Bastiaansen are catchers of light. Look how the light shines through the thin porcelain. And as I say bowls, this is only to indicate their origin. They are not bowls. They come from the concept...

Picture a cold, cold village hall in a small town in northern Tasmania. Those of us here in this wintry purgatory sit at trestle tables arranged in a horseshoe and the mood is tense, because this is the Appeal Hearing into a controversial granting...

Xue Huizhi's piece femininity is a sophisticated work that appeals on many different levels, incorporating elements of sculpture, vessel-work, historical ceramics, metaphor and humour. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first impression of the piece...