KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL 2008
INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS EXHIBITION
8 August - 8 September - 10am-6pm daily
Exhibiting Artists and Artwork:
Frances Lambe – Ireland
Lambe's sculpture is drawn from a convergence of contrasting sources.
Examining the geography of landscape and seascape, her work contains the
counterpoint of opposites: smooth and textured, microscopic and vast,
still and moving...
Observed effects of time and weathering on surfaces influences the form
and texture of the work.
Lambe’s sculptural forms are hand-built using different clays which
vary in colour and texture.
The work is abstract, ambiguous and sometimes whimsical.
'Ribbed Form' by Frances Lambe
Jason Walker – USA
Walker explores through his work the question of “What it means to be
human in the present time?” Addressing issues such as ‘What is
Nature? This question is the guiding force behind my work. I feel we use the
term nature very loosely in our language today, and in my work I am searching
for a place or an object that embodies the word nature. According to Webster’s
Dictionary, nature is something in its essential form untouched and untainted
by the hands of a human being.’
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'Vase' by Jim Robinson
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'Sugar Pachyderm' by Kira Campbell
Jim Turner – Ireland
Jim's current work is focused on creating textured surfaces unique to the
ceramic process. The bottle, trophy and pod sculpture forms are constructed
from altered extrusions and paper clay sheets.
These surfaces are treated like a canvas on which he applies slips and glazes.
Mike Dodd – UK
Influenced by medieval and Asian ceramics Mike expresses himself through the
traditional skills of throwing pots. His forms and glazes express the relationship
between disciplined technique and the free play of the heart.
“LAND – SCRIPTS” by Tunde Toth
As a fibre artist and paper
maker Tunde has been working with natural fibres (abaca, esparto, bamboo,
rush, straw, grass…etc), handmade papers, silk fibres and textiles for
the past eleven years.
By using natural beeswax on fibres and textured surfaces and ‘manipulating’
these fibres by burning and scorching she is also creating a distance from
the material.
“Land – Scripts” is the theme of her recent experimental
works - papermaking processes as creations of exciting, dynamic images of
interacting fibres and layers of colours. Reading textures as visual references
to actual scripts – writings, old texts, parchments and manuscripts.
Exploration of traces, marks, imprints and “fading messages” of
times and environments. A creative attempt to capture “maps of surfaces”,
fragmentation, disappearance and reappearance.
Click on the images to enlarge:
'Landscript' by Tunde Toth,detail
'Copper' by Tunde Toth, detail
'Copper' by Tunde Toth
'Landscript' by Tunde Toth
'Bubbles' by Tunde Toth
'Treasure Map' by Tunde Toth
'Underwater series 2' by Tunde Toth
'Roots' by Tunde Toth
