Some more prints of old maps of Turraheen . . continuing the exploration of my movement through my life.Also some pictures of work from a visiting ceramics lecturer Vicky Shaw

Layered prints of maps of Turraheen. Cobalt blue  and gold was used to evoke the similarities between the willow crockery suspended in the resin.

Dry point etchings. Maps of Turraheen from different eras were layered on top of each other to represent the changes in time.

The following are some pictures from a visiting ceramics lecturer Vicky Shaw. The photographs explore the work that she does with ceramics, especially the silk screening onto clay which I loved.

Exploring map of Turraheen: ceramic, print and 3d structure . . the process and the journey

My studio space

I sourced all of the old maps of where I'm from,  from my Dad, from  the local studies library and from ordnance survey Ireland. I got maps , from just after the famine, from 1906, from the 1960's and more recent maps. I made acetate copies of the maps and layered them onto each other to look at the changes over time.

I drew the old map onto tracing paper.

I placed the tracing paper over a large slab of clay and cut and drew the map onto the clay.

I peeled off all the tracing paper and put the map into the kiln . .
The map blew up. A few weeks work wasted!
So I decided to make the same map but in 4 different parts this time.

This time when we put them into the kiln it all worked out well!

Using ceramic writing ink I wrote old memories, phone conversations, lists, postcards I would have sent home.

In another attempt to get ink onto the clay after the first biscuit firing I rubbed black water ceramic paint into the clay & then scrubbed the paint off with a scrub. The remaining paint lodged in the cracks and lettering giving the newspaper print effect I was looking for. Next step is to put a translucent cobalt blue glaze on the maps and fire them again.

With all the tracing paper maps left over, traces of memories, traces of places I made some 3d structures.

Next I started with a print project based again on maps of where I'm from. I made a series of dry point etching prints using cobalt blues and golds. I layered older maps onto newer maps to convey the passing of time.

These photographs show the process entailed in making these prints.

These 2 prints are my favourite as they really evoke the old blue willow pattern that goes with these memories of the land and the old bits of crockery embedded as memories in the land.

ceramic map . . the process and the journey

Concepts and ideas that I wrote down in my journal from October to December 2011

6th of October 2011

Moving through my memories of my life
Making connections -musical light box sequence of my memories through my life
My movement through my life-self exploration-my inner voice
Look up Rachel Whiteread-ghost
Maps of my movement around the country and around the world
Transparencies
The movement of the phases of the moon
Movement through light
Light shadows
Shadow theatre
Humming with abandoned magic

12^th of October 2011

3d cast of maps

Photocopy maps from 84 & 96 and make 3d casts of them
Move from those maps to routes I've made around the world

The translucence of memory

13^th of Oct 2011

Polyester resin
Marine shop Clarinbridge
Hot glue gun and glue sticks aldi
Moldsil

15^th of Oct 2011

The kanyu tree new album cover
Street people
Get imagesof myself ,baby, child,teenager, adult and superimpose them onto each other
My movement through my life 

17^th of Oct 2011

Wire as a drawing material
Needle& thread as drawing material
Weaving using newspaers from different dates in my life
Dress made up of postcards I've written from around the world
Make clothes I've worn out of papier mâché , wire
Drawing images,memories using felt
Create a shape & work the felt over it

Anna Gunnerstottir: Scandanavian artist

3d sculptures made out of Nuno felt

Anna Gunnarsdottir (Iceland)

sea shells

Photo by Samantha Burns

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2007

Nuno felt
Installation using massive White ropes?
Lantern memories-bamboo,tissue paper &pva glue
V fine plastic yarn
Image transfer
Oil based inks in printing convey translucency

18^th of Oct 2011

Memories in stone
Floating memories

Make mono print of maps and layer on top of each other
Poul Webb art blog

19^th of Oct 2011

Do map way bigger, much bigger scale

26^th of Oct 2011

Story cubes of my movement through my life


28^th of Oct 2011

River stones-large scale

Grayson Perry

7^th of Nov 2011

My movement through my life
Signposts from different journeys that I've travelled through

Contextual ceramic artists

Elke Sada

Elke Sada loves expressive paintings and everyday objects, something which she skillfully combines in her impressive ceramic objects. To create them she leaves the classic path by simply reversing the work process. Sada starts with the picture, painting abstract motifs on plasterboards. Following only her intuition she freely applies a variety of colors and hues with soft, sweeping brushstrokes. The material she uses for painting is engobe, a pigmented watery suspension of clays and other minerals. Then she pours clay onto the painted plate. Comparable to the monotype technique, the clayey painting bleeds into the hardening clay. While the material is still flexible, Sada takes off the clay plate and cuts off fragments which she uses to form her mugs, pitchers and vases. Each vessel of the “Cappricio” series has its own personality sporting a tilted shape or overlapping parts, for example. Elke Sada has been awarded several prizes for her innovative approach to creating contemporary ceramic objects. Her work is represented in various collections. Since 2004 she has regularly been exhibiting her creations.

Elke Sada OVAL CAPRICCIO VASE

EARTHENWARE WITH ENGOBE PAINTING.

Elke Sada: CAPRICCIO PITCHER AND MUGS

EARTHENWARE WITH ENGOBE PAINTING

Paul Scott

Elke Sada: CAPRICCIO PITCHER AND MUGS

EARTHENWARE WITH ENGOBE PAINTING

Paul Scott: ceramics: foot & mouth

Cumbrian blue ceramics

Paul Scott: ceramics: foot & mouth watch tree

Ann Linnemann & Paul Scott’s Summer Trees

This teacup is one in a series of ceramic pieces designed by Ann Linnemann and Paul Scott. The collection, called Winter Trees and Summer Trees, is hand thrown and glazed by Linnemann in her studio in Copenhagen. Scott, who hails from Blencogo, England, creates the ceramic decals in his studio in Blencogo, England.

Jo Meesters, 2004, porcelain, sandblasting

Sasha Banbury contextual research
Incorporate a story in the screen

22^nd of Nov 2011

Contextual Francis Lambe
Map -translucent ultramarine blue with flecks of gold&black print numbers
Washes of cobalt blue
Traces of colour
Linked to resin bottles with crockery

5/12/11

Grayson Perry. These images were taken from a dvd I watched where Grayson parry spoke about how he makes the vases and the concepts that he works from.

Makes large coil pots

Covers in layer of slip

Draws into the slip

Cuts drawings out

Paints/uses transfers

Gold,mother of pearl

Huge variety

Being sensitive to ones own responses to looking at things

I want my work to give me something I couldn't have gotten any other way

People are often numb to their own experiences of things

Big trait in the mod world

Ideas& experience get confused

Idea 

Print newspaper onto ceramics

Print monoprints of old maps onto ceramics

 Ceramic map of turraheen with blue glaze&print

Document in conceptual notebook that 1st map blew up!

Kiln too hot?!

Change of plan

Making map in 4 diff sections

Contextual

Patricia Patterson San Diego

Artist river prints

Contextual-memories Claire Henderson

Murty McGrath

Murty McGrath

Martha Falllon

Joe Flaherty

Ceramics Exhibition November 2011 LSAD 

Marianne Klopp

Elaine Riordan

Elanor Swan

Alison Kay

Alex Scott

Neil Reid

Nuala Creed

Michael Moore

Michael Flynn

Andrew Ludick

Jane Jermyn

Map -translucent ultramarine blue with flecks of gold & black print numbers

Washes of cobalt blue

Traces of colour

Linked to resin bottles with crockery