Materials: Porcelain, charred wood, waxed cord, traditional Chinese porcelain glaze
Dimensions: H20cm 18×18cm
Exhibited at: DJCAD Degree Show 2024 (Dundee), Branching Out (Dundee Botanic Garden), SSA Annual Exhibition (RSA, Edinburgh)
A half slip-cast and half lathe turned vase, decorated with a traditional Chinese porcelain glaze and pine from the Cairngorms (that burned off in the kiln). The two parts are stitched together with a waxed cord.
I walked the piece of Scots pine all the way from Bob Scott’s to Aviemore and then to my studio in Dundee for it not to show at all. I must have been too impatient when burning the wood, probably because I wasn’t really supposed to have a fire going on campus :) The wood wasn’t burnt down to powdery ash, so when I was adding water it separated. That alone should have been a sign it would not stick. This is one of the reasons why I love using found materials within my work, I’m constantly learning and only controlling the controllable. In a way, I like that the pine ash didn’t show. Instead I decided to fully char the turned wooden bottom to create the most contrasting vessel of the series.
Materials: Porcelain, charred wood, waxed cord, traditional Chinese porcelain glaze
Dimensions: H20cm 18×18cm
Exhibited at: DJCAD Degree Show 2024 (Dundee), Branching Out (Dundee Botanic Garden), SSA Annual Exhibition (RSA, Edinburgh)
A half slip-cast and half lathe turned vase, decorated with a traditional Chinese porcelain glaze and pine from the Cairngorms (that burned off in the kiln). The two parts are stitched together with a waxed cord.
I walked the piece of Scots pine all the way from Bob Scott’s to Aviemore and then to my studio in Dundee for it not to show at all. I must have been too impatient when burning the wood, probably because I wasn’t really supposed to have a fire going on campus :) The wood wasn’t burnt down to powdery ash, so when I was adding water it separated. That alone should have been a sign it would not stick. This is one of the reasons why I love using found materials within my work, I’m constantly learning and only controlling the controllable. In a way, I like that the pine ash didn’t show. Instead I decided to fully char the turned wooden bottom to create the most contrasting vessel of the series.