Ceramics term 4, week 1

Underglaze colours -Moulds -
My work from before the break - the little room under the stairs
filled with nasty things -
It was glazed and fired straight to stoneware, no bisque stage.

More bubbly metal and contortions, top and bottom -

And today's models, just doors really, made into a scene with the unused bits of clay -
Another slab -
Those were rolled out, and here's another way of making things with corners - press the clay into a mould -
At the end of the day, these were left to dry, for more carving next week -
Things that were mentioned during the day:
Richard Deacon's sandblasted ceramic tigers, which developed holes and were put it cages (here are some holey tigers by a different sculptor);
Clare Twomey's floor of fragile tiles, which had to be walked across;
African villages where the broken pots are used as floors of huts;
acrow props, the many uses of;
light sources for getting shadows in exhibition spaces;
combining see-through paper with densely opaque pottery, and other contrasts;
an exhibition at the Geffrye Museum, but unfortunately they don't have previous exhibitions on the website;
the Ronan Point towerblock collapse;
underpinning;
dipping metal mesh in clay;
Richard Wentworth's ladders;
the idea of defining space sparingly;
a Spanish ceramic artist whose name starts with G....