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...It’s hard to believe she conjured such an atmospheric landscape out of clay alone....
...Xenophobia and terror of the unknown are also traced in an earlier quilt series, Creatures of the Mappa Mundi, through the mythical monsters of Hereford Cathedral’s medieval map of the world....
...She will make it in clay; it would be better off in clay. The idea for her residency project is seeded. In Sophie’s own words, to make the most of a residency you need preparedness....
...Many homes were newly remodelled, in concrete with glass windows rather than mud or clay....
...But being unknown is what makes craftspeople so sublime to me,” he says proudly....
...“I remember so much from my early years: playing with bricks and imagining they were cars; making things out of wire from fencing and clay from the riverbed next to our house.”...
...Or the calamine-pink courtyard recently cast by Unknown Works for a young family in north London?...
...As a result, she is almost unknown today — yet revealed here as a strong, insightful artist. Where Gonzalez-Foerster makes collective bodies a potent force, Lozano was an uncompromising individualist....
...Even the drinks — herb and fruit decoctions, high-altitude wines, and craft beers from the Sacred Valley — are served in clay pots....
...But as the reaction of the woman at the campsite suggests, inland Cornwall is still an ominously unknown place for some visitors....
...The photo shows the artist, then in her early thirties and unknown to the world, sitting cross-legged....
...For their Arctic adventure, they chose Ilimanaq, an isolated village with about 50 inhabitants and an unknown number of Greenland Dogs....
...Every vista begs for a pair of bonneted ladies in crinolines, or a grubby old sailor with a clay pipe wedged in his beard....
...The 18th century meets the 21st softly, with natural, tactile materials – stone, wood, clay, lime, linen – in elemental tones....
...The first thing you may notice as you enter this sprawling warren of dining rooms and bars is the old clay tobacco pipes hanging from every inch of the ceiling....
...The ones I love are the small, odd things that were part of people’s daily lives – an Edward I penny, a couple of Tudor clothing hooks, a handful of old clay marbles....
...In the 17th century, in the new European settlements at the eastern edge of what was perceived by its settlers — or, rather, its invaders — to be an unknown continent, Springfield was a liminal community...
...It was epitomised by the short speech Baerbock made on her first trip to Moscow earlier this month, when she spoke of the “shame and awe” she felt while laying a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...Read’s pencil is a proselytising free-market fan and explains that it has an impressive pedigree: its graphite is from Ceylon, mixed with Mississippi clay, sulphuric acid and animal fats....
...Kudos to the Met’s assistant curator Shanay Jhaveri for bringing us these nuanced works made with craft materials by a woman so distant from the art establishment that she remained mostly unknown even in...
...Clay has this very primal relationship to the body. It feels very natural when you’re working with clay to somehow bring out the body,” she says....
...The trove comes from Irisagrig, an ancient city unknown until tablets referring to it appeared on the art market from 2003....
...Business was being made here too: east London’s Soft Opening gallery reported “some sales” of its birthday cake-like castles, made out of Fimo modelling clay, by the up-and-coming Swiss artist Gina Fischli...
...The Quattrocento master is far from unknown. But chiefly he is famed as the master to whom Leonardo da Vinci was apprenticed....
...Sykes admits to a fear of the ocean, “the unknown world underneath” that is evoked by the seaweeds’ lithe and slippery silhouettes....
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