clay under construction

ALISON COOKE - clay under construction

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The colours of Tin Mine Clay.

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Tin Mine Clay - setting up in the mill of Geevor Tin Mine. www.geevor.com

Ceramics made of clay from two Cornish mines by Alison Cooke and Dominique Fuglistaller. With photographs by Adam Sharpe. 

Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall. Until 31st October 2019.

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London Bridge Hotel are exhibiting work by local artists as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Included is some of my work from the London Bridge Clay Project. Made of clay dug from 30m below London Bridge Station as part of the Thameslink redevelopment. Now it sits just metres away from the site of excavation. 

Track - Extruded track profiles that distorts to something less recognisable. Made whilst the untangling of the tracks at London Bridge Station was taking place.

Block 1 and 2. Made to reference the moment when the piling machine broke ground. 30m of extruded clay. 

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FATBERG workshop. The public were invited to make something that should NOT be in the sewer. Using clay excavated from London’s future sewer. Part of the Pipeline:Doulton/Bazalgette Project.

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Internal maps to the site of white clay in Rosevale Tin Mine. Made of the found clay. 

Exhibition TIN MINE CLAY at Geevor Tin Mine from July 17th - Oct 2019

Ceramics by Alison Cooke and Dominique Fuglistaller. WIth photographs by Adam Sharpe.

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Tin Mine Clay. 

Image 1 - Made from white clay dug from the walls of Rosevale tin mine. 

Image 2. Made from the tailings of Geevor Tin Mine. Mineral bearing rocks were crushed into smaller and smaller pieces until the cassiterite (tin ore) could be separated out. Once all value had been extracted the waste particles washed down to 3 big ponds called 'the slimes'. We dug it up and are kidding ourselves it's clay. Its probably sand and iron but it fires to something like ceramic. Tin Mine Clay exhibition at Geevor Tin Mine Museum 17th July - October 2019

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Salt Glazing 25/4/19

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Layers of strata. Part of Doulton/Bazalgette Project. Map co-ordinates of drill site stamped in slab.

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Broken or surplus.

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Thanks to the Institute of Civil Engineers for including me in their exhibition “Water - from source to tap”. From 22nd March until 2020. 

Made of clay excavated from London’s future interceptor sewer currently under construction.

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Flush/Unflush 

Made of clay excavted from London’s furure supersewer. Installed in the Bazalgette Room at the House of St. Barnanbas, the room where Joseph Bazalgette designed the Victorian sewer 160 years ago.

To coincide with Joseph Bazalgette’s 200th birthday.

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Egg vs. Round. The basis of a sewer war between Joseph Bazalgette and Victorian sanitary reformer Edwin Chadwick.

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Attempt no.2 at low fire salt glazing. London clay + 1kg salt + 900 °C

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Work in progress for Doulton/Bazalgette Project. Profile wrap arounds. Favourite sewer tunnel shape, 3′ wide x 6′2″ - enough space for one person to walk through with their arms by sides.

Made from clay excavated in the construction of London’s future supersewer.

Exhibition “Boring ends in Clay” in Joseph Bazalgettes former office at the House of St Barnabus, Soho Square, London. From April.

Also to be part of an exhibition at the Institute of Civil Engineers from late March.

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Sewer plans held at ICE. 

Boreholes were dug all over London in preparation for the building of the Victorian sewer. Borehole No.26 on the mid-level sewer was close to Bazalgettes office in Soho Sqaure and shows the layer of strata beneath the building where the sewer was designed. 

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Fired and Un-fired. Components for Doulton/Bazalgette. Made of clay excavated from the future supersewer.

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Salt glazing earthenware clay which was excavated from the future supersewer. First test firing to 1060°C. 1 kg table salt. 

In reference to Henry Doulton’s 1,000 miles of saltglazed sewer pipes which joined London’s buildings to the main pipeline of Bazalgette’s Victorian sewer.

Supported by the Craft Pottery Charitable Trust.