In the next few weeks I have a couple more trips organised to Stoke and Spode.
last week Keith Varney and myself went back to Spode to take a closer look at the mould stores and I needed to begin looking at the water supply within or in and around the China Hall.
I'm reaching the stage with this project that I feel as though I need to immerse myself into the space to begin to gain a deeper understanding not only of the site but also my own conceptual thinking. The way I tend to work is often balanced between process work, the site and quiet thinking time, before I begin to feel I'm in full command of the work.
Next week i'm visiting Potclay's clay pit with Phoebe Cummings so I'm really looking forward to that and having the opportunity to photograph this huge space. It's been several years since I last visited a clay pity and it always astonishes me how powerful these spaces are the scale is mind-blowing. It also hi-lights the power that clay resonates in it's raw form. The weight the density and presence it has over a large area.
Some of these ideas are also present in the work I'm developing for the British Ceramics Biennial so I think this trip will begin to solidify some of my thinking. www.britishceramicsbiennial.com
last week Keith Varney and myself went back to Spode to take a closer look at the mould stores and I needed to begin looking at the water supply within or in and around the China Hall.
I'm reaching the stage with this project that I feel as though I need to immerse myself into the space to begin to gain a deeper understanding not only of the site but also my own conceptual thinking. The way I tend to work is often balanced between process work, the site and quiet thinking time, before I begin to feel I'm in full command of the work.
Next week i'm visiting Potclay's clay pit with Phoebe Cummings so I'm really looking forward to that and having the opportunity to photograph this huge space. It's been several years since I last visited a clay pity and it always astonishes me how powerful these spaces are the scale is mind-blowing. It also hi-lights the power that clay resonates in it's raw form. The weight the density and presence it has over a large area.
Some of these ideas are also present in the work I'm developing for the British Ceramics Biennial so I think this trip will begin to solidify some of my thinking. www.britishceramicsbiennial.com