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...Clay is a multilingual material.”...
...Today, the artist perhaps best known for pictorial pottery is Grayson Perry, but a number of contemporary ceramicists are telling tales in clay....
...Materials span from wood and clay to textiles, metal and glass....
...Michael Perry, a speaker at the show, recommends ditching high-maintenance lawns. “The only reason we have them is because we think our neighbours expect us to,” he says....
...Made from rammed earth and timber, ReVærk’s low and sturdy pavilion extols the virtues of tamped clay soil....
...And, as the potter Grayson Perry wrote in his autobiography, you can be as “outrageous” as you like on ceramics because “the vice squad is never going to raid a pottery exhibition”....
...In the exhibition Park Royal Clay, ceramicists and makers will transform raw London clay extracted from local major infrastructure projects into crafted objects and everyday products....
...Owens showcases Tomb chair, a surreal piece made from white marble and moose antlers, while Faina’s Duzhyi stool is hand-sculpted from wood chips, clay, flax and other natural materials, in a technique once...
...Styling products that enhance the greyness, such as Oribe’s Silverati Illuminating Pomade or Shu Uemura’s Nendo Definer Matte Clay, are also worth investigating....
...For a shop window display at Selfridges in London he created demountable block-based tables and shelves, called Reversible, binding granular expanded clay with melted sugar....
...Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize with them in 2003. The groundbreaking 2004 exhibition at Tate Liverpool, A Secret History of Clay, showed clay’s use by artists from Gauguin to Gormley....
...In previous years, the prize has gone to artists working with textiles, clay, wood and lacquer....
...Noha’s “Reunion IV: Burning Curiosity” (2022) is a two-legged anthropomorphic vessel made in terracotta clay — a contrast to Harewood’s collection of delicately painted 18th-century porcelain....
...Art teacher Gyr King, 69, co-founded fine art print business King & McGaw with brothers Perry and Quentin in 1982, from a derelict house in Brighton....
...On the walls are photographs by Don McCullin (a local friend); Perry Ogden (Claudia’s cousin); and William Dalrymple (a family friend), all of which can be ordered....
...On the wall hangs a photograph by Perry Ogden (a family friend) from his “Pony Kids” show from 1999, which Rocha remembers seeing as a kid....
...Sarah Perry is author of ‘Essex Girls’ (Serpent’s Tail), to be published on October 1. Her bestselling 2016 novel ‘The Essex Serpent’ won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards...
...As Perry says, “I’m not trying to turn everybody instantly into great artists or to show you how to draw sunsets, hands or birds....
...It was one of a raft of imaginative products that accompanied the sculptor’s retrospective, including a hi-vis jacket with Gormley’s Buddha drawing on the back and a kilogram of clay....
...Perry, now a distinguished still-life photographer, but who England describes as having been “the go-to photographer for the avant-garde from the mid-60s to about 1970”....
...From second world war-era Germany to present-day Reykjavík, the genre-hopping trilogy focuses loosely on Joséf — a clay baby born in a hatbox, and an alter-ego for the author....
...Pieces range from stoneware cups (from £65) and vases (from £300) to magnificent textured-clay Moon Jars (£650 to £3,800) that are generously round forms oozing glazes with volcanic energy....
...“Where you mine coal, you’ll find clay seams,” says Jon Wilson. It’s a happy coincidence....
...So the person who originally used that term was Perry Link, but it refers to this idea, it’s a strange metaphor, but this idea of a snake coiled in a chandelier, that won’t necessarily strike or won’t necessarily...
...Works by Grayson Perry, winner of the Turner Prize, the UK art award, regularly go for £20,000 and he has done much to glamorise the medium....
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