The Black Potters Giving New Life to British Ceramics
The ceramists (from left) Phoebe Collings-James, Bisila Noha and Ronaldo Wiltshire with a selection of their works, including one of Collings-James’s glazed stoneware tiles (bottom left), a pair of Noha’s two-legged vessels in black stoneware and terra cotta (far left) and one of Wiltshire’s stoneware face sculptures (top right).Credit.Photo by Ollie Adegboye. Set design by Alice Andrews.
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The Black Potters Giving New Life to British Ceramics
A growing community of makers are creating work that reflects their identities and challenges the history of their art form in the U.K.
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Lucy Lacoste Gallery opens an exhibition of ceramics by British artist Ken Eastman
Ken Eastman, Shaping Silence, 2020. 13.25h x 17.50w in.
CONCORD, MASS
.-Lucy Lacoste Gallery starts the 2021 season with the esteemed British artist Ken Eastmans exhibition Border Country, created expressly for the Gallery. The work of this modernist master centers around the idea of the vessel. He uses the vessel as a subject, to give meaning and form to an expression. Working through the medium of ceramics, Eastman can be both builder and painter handling shape and structure, as well as exploring tone and color.
These latest multi-faceted pots were made from numerous slabs of clay, shaped and assembled in a spontaneous and intuitive way. This process meant that the forms couldnt be planned beyond loose ideas about scale, proportion and complexity. These vessels with their composition of broad, sweeping planes and layers of color can be seen as landscape, painting or sculpture. Lighting on t