UCA Craft Residency 2024-2025
It's All Rock
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September 2024
As a fresh Ceramics MFA graduate I had spent my summer working as a potter at one of my favourite places on Earth, Etelhems Krukmakeri. One early September day I got an email in my inbox confirming a one year residency at The University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK. Woohoo! After countless rejections I was thrilled to be offered such a luxurious opportunity. So off I went!
What follows is a series of experiments and ideas which I've been exploring.
October 2024
Waste glaze and paper tests. Exploring glaze as a body removed from clay.
Gifted Serpentine rock from an old friend. According to their tests Serpentine rock has all the minerals in it to produce a vitrified stoneware glaze.
The Serpentine rock was found at the Lizard in Cornwall.
Developing plaster moulds that can withstand stoneware temperatures.
Seeing how the mould recipe responds to a multiple-part mould.
Developing glazes that contain similar minerals to the Serpentine rock.
Firing a mock-up Serpentine glaze in a plaster mould to stoneware temperature.
Successful separators allowing a clean release from the mould.
Seeing a possibility to form glaze in a controlled manner without using clay.
November 2024
Sculpting clay and glaze in to "jawbreakers". Working with different materials in layers and using glaze as its own sculptural material.
Breaking the "jawbreakers" to reveal layers of materials.
Some cracked from the pressure during firing.
Some "jawbreakers" were sliced before firing.
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