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#ceramics
#Katie Rose Johnston
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Evoking the meandering veins in leaves, the clustered divots of termite holes, or pocked coral, Katie Rose Johnston’s ceramic sculptures meld natural type with operate.
The Glasgow-based artist (beforehand) works as M A N I F E S T O, shaping wall-based cabinets she refers to as Curiosity Clouds. Designed to carry collections like their Sixteenth-century counterparts referred to as wunderkammers, the earthenware items comprise small pockets completely formed to suit pinecones, seashells, and craggy hunks of stone.
Johnston just lately returned to Scotland after a residency at Shiro Oni Studios in Japan the place she participated within the four-day communal ritual of firing an Anagama kiln. As wooden burns within the chamber, ash clings to the ceramics inside and provides a shiny end, an unpredictable end result the artist plans to include into her observe. “I’ve began to develop an ash glaze, which is able to invite a little bit of this opportunity into these new kinds,” she tells Colossal. “The wooden ash was very kindly given by an area Glasgow-based pizza restaurant, so I’m excited to even have the chance to divert a waste materials from landfill, giving it a brand new life.”
Along with this technical growth, the residency impressed a collection of wood-fired serving dishes and platters, which Johnston plans to proceed within the coming months. All of her sculptures and items promote out extremely rapidly, however if you happen to maintain an eye fixed out for store updates on her Instagram, you may be capable to snag one.
#ceramics
#Katie Rose Johnston
#sculpture
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