Last week the BCB announced the programme of events....
It's offical the Hothouse3 ceramics team have been selected for the Spode Research Residency.
There are nine of us taking part take a look at some of the wonderful work.
Myself
Keith Varney www.keithvarney.co.uk
Jane Cairnes www.janecairns.co.uk
Miche Follano www.michefollano.com
Fay Jenkinson www.fayjenkinson.co.uk
Naomi Robinson www.naomirobinsonceramics.com
Grant Aston www.grantaston.com
Anne Laycock
Jill Shadock www.jillshaddock.co.uk
A few weeks ago we all visited the Spode site to take a closer look at the building and felt quite privileged to be able to step into areas that are normally out of bounds.
The research residency is an opportunity to produce a piece or series of work in and around Spode. We have around six months before the opening and as we are working as a group we are looking at the idea of mapping the work across the site.
Our second visit will be later this month where we have decided to bring all our ideas together to have a brain storming session on site and begin to look at where each of us may want to be positioned within the building and why?
Here are a few images taken from the initial trip.
It was fascinating to see and experience this vast space but at the same time it had a somewhat ghostly atmosphere as though time had literally stood still.
What was once a hub of manufacturing and production is now an empty shell of times past.
It was also sad to see this remarkable building once a pioneer in print and bone china production succumbed to abandonment and decay.
However, these are the elements I'm planning to draw upon as a starting point for the research. There are many more images I've could have posted but I'm in the process of of dividing them into separate boards to begin looking at what the visit really hi-lighted for me.
It's offical the Hothouse3 ceramics team have been selected for the Spode Research Residency.
There are nine of us taking part take a look at some of the wonderful work.
Myself
Keith Varney www.keithvarney.co.uk
Jane Cairnes www.janecairns.co.uk
Miche Follano www.michefollano.com
Fay Jenkinson www.fayjenkinson.co.uk
Naomi Robinson www.naomirobinsonceramics.com
Grant Aston www.grantaston.com
Anne Laycock
Jill Shadock www.jillshaddock.co.uk
A few weeks ago we all visited the Spode site to take a closer look at the building and felt quite privileged to be able to step into areas that are normally out of bounds.
The research residency is an opportunity to produce a piece or series of work in and around Spode. We have around six months before the opening and as we are working as a group we are looking at the idea of mapping the work across the site.
Our second visit will be later this month where we have decided to bring all our ideas together to have a brain storming session on site and begin to look at where each of us may want to be positioned within the building and why?
Here are a few images taken from the initial trip.
It was fascinating to see and experience this vast space but at the same time it had a somewhat ghostly atmosphere as though time had literally stood still.
What was once a hub of manufacturing and production is now an empty shell of times past.
It was also sad to see this remarkable building once a pioneer in print and bone china production succumbed to abandonment and decay.
However, these are the elements I'm planning to draw upon as a starting point for the research. There are many more images I've could have posted but I'm in the process of of dividing them into separate boards to begin looking at what the visit really hi-lighted for me.
Glaze room
Kiln Room
Mould Store
Old Print transfers