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shelby redfern / 29 / soft punk maker & scribbler from norfolk, uk documenting learning ceramics + developing my art practice :-)

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MUGS!

I’ve popped a couple on the shop now.

Hand built by my hands for your drinking pleasure.

Only one of each!

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- sold -

a small handbuilt bowl designed with skulls carved in using the sgraffito technique 💀🔥

this was super satisfying to make. I think I want to make more with this cascading skull design!

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Close ups of some of the doodle-y delights you can find in my new mini zine - Pocket Doodles (Volume 1)

A collection of drawings spanning yeeeeeears that I’ve really quite liked but never done anything with… well, until now!

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a big ol’ photo dump of bits and bobs I’ve been working on lately!

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made the icon spooky for the season!

although I now don’t want to ever change it back.

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Ingrid’s Mug

After making my first mug, rather selfishly for me, I wanted to make one for my best human, @jesuschristingrid!

I knew I wanted to use the grid idea to create contrast between the sgraffito designs and the designs painted on in slip - some images made from adding clay, and some from taking it away. Plus it was so fun to work out the images that I felt best represented Ingrid.

I really love this mug. I love the wibbly pinched walls and the wobbly painted grid.

I have some other finished bits to post soon and I have more work in the pipeline, plus my first ceramics commission! My good friend has set me the task of making some very cool things for her. They’re currently a work in progress.

Ceramics is exciting and the possibilities feel endless right now. It’s almost a bit overwhelming!

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The First!

Beginning my journey into ceramics I made this little mug. I incorporated illustrations using sgraffito technique to draw into the slip painted onto the form.

This mug taught me about kiln shrinkage … resulting in the final thing being a tad small. Whoops.

I love it nevertheless. My very first mug!

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Links

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'Swarm'

a poster graphic created as a multi-media collage using images taken by (and with the permission of) Paul Harries and both physical and digitally drawn elements.

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Get Up, Coward

for UNKILLABLE zine by @thrashbeatles & @birdloaf

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UNKILLABLE is a collection of works about disability, community and american rock band my chemical romance. hand-folded and stapled, each zine is a little different, one of a kind just for you.

this zine includes 45 pages of poetry, essays, artwork, comics & more—all pieced together by creators with disabilities & a love for the same rock band.

our team: sam sunday @/sutter.art, emmeline sutliff @/beadyeyedbandit, shelby @/batskum, frnkiero @/frankieromustdie (!), merlin sabal @/fierce_invalids, bip @demolition-lesbians, joy johnson @/happy_humbug76/@cordspaghetti, lizard @/vesselester, ambo @/amborias, johanna e.h. @sapphicpenguin/johannapoet.com, joan sebastien epsilon @signedjehanne, gwyn crites @/gwynfinchart, cai howells/howls @/zombifiend, isa @dykegerard, eli p. @rakknruins, uma snow @/umadoodles/goddamnituma, malena o. @overalls, & malice @/bobbydontbesad.

original cover photo by @/humgumhum

moderation & graphic design by thrashbeatles & @birdloaf

get your copy here.

xo

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I was in this zine!!! (was batskum)

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Ladies, Ladies (2019) 2 pages from my art zine exploring female identity and sexuality. Made using locally found photographs (among many donated to St. Gregory's Antiques in Norwich), scanned and illustrated on digitally.