New Soda Work by Kenyon Hansen

There is a gorgeous album of new soda work by Kenyon Hansen doing the rounds on Facebook and I just had to share it here as well. Fantastic surfaces and forms all round.
Why oh why do such things pop up right before the holidays? My wish list for Father Christmas grows longer everyday.


Want to know more about his work? Check out the links below:
Kenyon Hansen: Hot Coffee and Tea (an article from Ceramics Monthly)
He is also a current Archie Bray Lincoln Fellow. See images and write up here.
Randy Johnston: Potter’s talk
Matt Kelleher & Shoko Teruyama-Featured Artists @ Red Lodge
I think i’m in love…
Shoko Teruyama

Matt Kelleher
See more gorgeousness here.
Steven Hill – A Potter’s Journey
Call for entries: 19th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
The Call For Entries is now available. Opening Reception: Friday, April 20, 2012
Exhibit Dates: April 20 – June 24, 2012 The competition is open to all artists who are residents of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. All work completed within the last 2 years, both functional and sculptural, is eligible. Entries postmarked by February 1, 2012Jurors: Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio – the preeminent international dealers in 20th-century ceramics. They founded Garth Clark Gallery in Los Angeles in 1981 and opened a second space in New York, which they operated from 1983 to 2008. They now live in Santa Fe and work as private dealers. They have organized eight major international symposia on ceramic history and criticism, published numerous books and catalogs and received a number of prestigious awards, both lifetime achievement and honorary doctorates.Invited Artists: Kyle and Kelly Phelps – identical twin brothers, who work collaboratively on their narrative work exploring the topics of race, class and the working man at their studio in Centerville, Ohio. They both received BFA’s from Ball State University in Indiana and continued on to earn MFA degrees in Ceramics and Sculpture from the University of Kentucky. Kyle is Associate Professor of Art and head of the Ceramics area at the University of Dayton and Kelly is an Associate Professor of Art and head of the Sculpture area at Xavier University, both in Ohio.
Maker in focus @ the Mission Gallery
Claire Curneen | 19 Nov – 8 January 2012
Claire Curneen is one of Britain’s foremost figurative ceramicists, renowned for the haunting, emotive porcelain figures that she has been making for over 10 years. Fascinated by the human body, she explores themes of human alienation, femininity and the combination of bodily flesh and spiritual existence. Her making technique, a kind of porcelain patchwork, results in figures that are covered in handprints and shallow lines like contours or scars. These naked figures have extraordinary presence, awkward and vulnerable yet also self-contained and inscrutable. ‘Daphne’. The subject draws on the story of Apollo and Daphne. In the painting by Antonio del Pollaiuolo the Greek God pursues Daphne, she is grabbed by Apollo, he persists in having her but she prays to the Gods to help her and she is turned into a tree, her arms shoot upwards and become strong branches which towers over Apollo. Curneen’s interpretation show the porcelain figure is in a state of change, the branches engulf her and they are topped with gold suggesting the delight in her fate.
Mission Gallery Gloucester Place Maritime Quarter Swansea SA1 1TY t 01792 652016 f 01792 652016 e [email protected] w missiongallery.co.uk








