I chose Scottish Ceramicist Frances Priest for this project as i really like her work and wanted to find out about the processes she uses in her collection ‘Objects of Touch and Travel’...
Process:
These objects are made to be held, all fitting comfortably in the human hand. Drawing is a very important part of Priests’ work, throughout the development stage and also in the actual making of the clay form where she spends hours incising her patterns by hand. These patterns are then inlaid with clay oxide colours after bisque firing and then sanded back. Priest finally paints glaze onto the coloured areas to highlight and enrich them with the final firing. This creates a richly textured surface...tangible pattern.
Inspiration:
Priest is inviting us to hold and interact with these objects to experience them fully by actually feeling the pattern. Inspiration for this collection sprung from time Priest spent abroad teaching disadvantaged children, some refugees, in an international school in Thailand. Projects involved the children making patterns which Priest realised were very specific to each child’s heritage and culture. This realisation, along with over 4,000 photographs from her travels in Thailand and the surrounding countries, led her to exploring how we all interact with pattern on a day to day basis.
My version:
Here are some test tiles and a bean or pebble-like form with incised pattern.
I liked the circles on the test tile made by tracing around a 2c coin with a scalpel...
More photos to come of the following stages.
These will be finished and bisqued before being
inlaid with clay oxides, bisqued again and finally glazed.
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