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...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...memorable ensembles among the collection of British modern art, natural finds and artefacts on display at Kettle’s Yard – the former Cambridge home and gallery of the late collector Jim Ede and his wife Helen...
...As they wander among the homewares, fashion and antiques in the galleried design superstore, they can look down on the factory floor where carpenters and ceramicists are busy with wood and clay....
...“I loved making sculptures — I always had a lump of clay in my hands,” she says. “In school, we were given a limited amount of paper to paint on, so when I had used it all up I painted on my dress....
...My style icon is the late actress Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis in the 1970s TV series The Jeffersons....
...Occasionally, he incorporates a portion of the ash into the porcelain clay to form a speckled, textured surface....
...Think of abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler’s pooled colours, the diffusion and blurring of edges as having some kinship....
...Helen Chadwick’s “Ego Geometria Sum” staged her autobiography in everyday objects — font, pram and, here, gym vault: “The Horse, aged 11”....
...At Ting-Ying Gallery, the feathery and delicate Bi-Valve sculpture by Helen O’Shea (£2,200) looks like it’s covered in a multitude of silk petals, when they are actually cut from a more prosaic material...
...One of my big dishes costs 50p in clay, the glaze slightly less. I use transparent glaze alone given that I can barely cope with decisions about shapes for my hand-built (ahem) abstract forms....
...Before he began working in clay, Herman was described as the West Coast equivalent of the ’80s neo-expressionist movement....
...But when a clutch of ancient clay pots unearthed at Hisarlik in the 19th century is placed alongside two large contemporary works — Cy Twombly’s painting “Vengeance of Achilles” and elements from Antony...
...“When I put my hand in the clay, that was a turning point because it’s such a primary thing; clay is matter,” she says....
...Collectable limited-edition collaborations can also be found at some of the more innovative plant subscription/delivery services, such as TheSill.com, which has worked with ceramicists including New York-based Helen...
...The person I rely on for personal grooming and wellbeing is my Alexander technique practitioner, Helen Cartier-Knox....
...Treating the woven fabric like a sculptor’s modelling clay, stretching, pinning and building it straight on to the model’s foot in the Florence factory....
...For more than 10 years he has been producing his “Clay” series of furniture, with its wobbly legs, constructed from hand-moulded synthetic clay around a metal frame, as if building the sets for a giant stop-frame...
...The heavy, sticky clay soil is nutrient-rich but poorly drained in winter and with a tendency to dry as hard as concrete in summer....
...Helen Barrett, the FT's Work and Careers Editor, and I will judge the entries and announce the winners no later than the week of September 17. No group entries, please. One entry per person....
...“Although there were austerity measures in place,” says the show’s curator Helen Walsh, “accessories and buttons could still be produced because women needed access to those frivolous materials to keep their...
...The brothers also believe in social activism, investing, for example, in schemes to teach homeless men how to make pots with clay brick, a class Humberto leads himself, with the results sold through their...
...It featured all kinds of species, from porcini to Lion’s Mane, which were cast in clay and resin and then hand-painted for display....
...A woman walks past semi-finished clay idols of the Hindu mythological characters ‘Dakinis’ and ‘Yoginis’, who will be worshipped along with the Hindu goddess Kali, at a roadside workshop ahead of the Kali...
...The next lesson was clay pigeon shooting....
...Helen Messenger of Danone, said: “Gender stereotyping is an important issue in our society today and we look forward to the ASA report....
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