Pierce Pierce

I've actually got some photos today!
Ok so I'm a little early. But that's a good thing.
I hope.

Here's some images of my preliminary work on the pierced works I was talking about last blog.


I'm pretty happy with how they're going, I will have to experiment with glazes etc though. I'm hoping a skin-coloured glaze works... I bought some the other day and I think it could be really good conceptually.

I think I generally like pastel colours for clay work... but not always. I guess just for organic sort of forms it's usually a nice juxtaposition between colour and form.

Anyway I'd best get back to it.
Have an arty day :-)

Hi.

So it's been a while since I last wrote... I haven't been a very good blogger!

I have been 'art nerding' it up though - still making the artworks though, so they're not completely finished. I've been looking at the idea of appearances (it seems to crop up a bit in my art practice!)... more exploring the idea of what we hide behind our appearance though - putting up a brave face, grinning and bearing it, etc. So I've started making some intensely-piered ceramic forms, playing with the concept of pain and beauty, scars, masks etc. I'm liking the visuals of this work so I'm quite excited.

I'm also looking at familial connections, memories and the past - I got partly inspired by researching Annette Gates' ceramic works that (seem to) explore the concept of destruction as a form of creation. She has coated her family's clothing in slip to then burn away in the kiln.

Annette Gates, Daughter Colony, 2005, 20 porcelain pieces slip-cast

Anyway I'll hopefully post some photos of my artworks once they're all done. :-D (Probably in a month or so).

Cheers, Daniel