Ceramics Research.

This is my secondary blog purely for ceramic research. my primary blog is mari-h-j.tumblr.com

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Bauhaus, Berlin

Had a very interesting visit to the Bauhaus Museum. Unfortunately you were not permitted to take photos. I found the section on architecture particularly interesting.

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Joseph Beuys, Tallow

Hamburger Bahnhoff

'a dead space of a concrete construction for a pedestrian tunnel [filled] with animal fat. The sensless urban construction was to transformed with the healing substance. Fat, a source of energy for the body, was used as a positive substance to rescue a cold, wounded space.'

Really interesting concept and outcome. Bringing together two different elements - an industrial space with a natural material, a cold, empty hole with a thick, once warm substance.

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Unknown Artist

Hamburger Bahnhoff

Really like this piece. LOVE the presentation - especially the small pieces on the wall. image + text pieces, using typewriter style font which gives the work a documentational feeling. I really love the idea of encasing these behind perspex/glass, secured with pins. This is a really interesting display idea, one I could apply to my own text/coding.

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Architectural drawings, various artists

Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin

Love these minimal and linear drawings - they convey space really effectively with few lines, and have a mapping quality to them.

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Unknown Artist

Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin

A curious piece of work. I dont really like the overall appearance of the piece, but found this particular element to it interesting; the labeled jars of un-identified liquids. I find again the documentational/archiving aspect to the work interesting, bringing to mind my archiving of collected plant ashes.

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Richard Jackson

Really interesting architectural small-scale sculpture created out of small rectangles of cardboard.

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Hanne Darboven

Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin

Really effective and interesting piece of work - A mass grid of framed pieces of work; photos and code-like images - surrounding vitrines encasing stacks of papers containing more information. I find the display of the work - its ordered, precise, formulaic + archival style really appealing, along with the graph paper images with curious coding written on them. I found this interesting most of all as it is relevant to my own practice in the way that recording findings, often through coding is of paramount importance to the development of my work. This is what these images make me think of - a document/record/coding of some sort. I like how through framing and presenting on the wall in mass they become a piece in their own right.

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Josephy Beyus

Hamburger bahnhoff, Berlin

Really interesting works - Look exactly like lenghts of rock, with perfect circular outlines carved in on one end. I find the relationship between the jagged, imperfect edge of rock and the perfect circle an interesting juxtaposition. Another interesting element to this work is the fact that the pieces or 'rock' are  resting on bits of pallette.. normally a material used for storage and transportation, but in this case chosen as a worthy display mechanism.

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Ikuko Iwamoto

Really interesting textural pieces made from a build up of multiples. I like the fact the colour palette has been kept to just white.

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Stoke BCB

More images of the inside/outside of the industrial buildings that the work was shown in. I found the industrial and neglected appearance of the rooms and exterier really inspiring.

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Fantastic multiple component pieces by Mella Shaw. So effective, the complexity of the piece through the build up of lots of tiny fragile looking bricks is balanced out by the simple + subtle use of colour. Having said this though, there is still a complexity to it, but the clever thing is that it comes across as simple.

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Stoke BCB

Really like the bold use of colour here - blocks & areas of colour along sider rough unfired clay.

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Adam Buick

Really interesting piece - unfored clay pot made from a mix of locally dug clay, left on a hill top to slowly degrade and be re-absorbed into the landscape.

Gives me ideas of experimenting with my natural clay - making hollow bricks and building a structure back where it was dug..?

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Zane Wilcox

Massive influence to me - the architectural forms, how they build up to create simple but complex structures. I love the texture, colour, shape.

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Stine Jespersen.

Jespersen’s bodies of work always deal with multiples, and creating an object out of these multiples. This use of repitition of an identical form is hugely effective and creates stunning pieces of work - here are two of my favourites.

Such high quality work. Gorgeous forms, the use of multiples being massively effective.

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Wim Borst.

Love all of Borst’s work. These are part of his most recent collection, but I find his early work equally as interesting. Highly influenced by Dutch geometric abstraction, all his work contain simplicity, strong forms combined with geometric shape. These pieces really interest me, they remind me of industrial elements such as concrete and pipeworks. I really love the quality he’s achieved by adding natural matter to his clay. Such clean and refined forms.

The inclusion of aggregate and natural matter to make a textures clay body has really influenced my recent experimentation into material tests.