JOHN NEWDIGATE
Newdigate’s canvas is clay, rendering his paintings globe-like. We look down into them, or are they perhaps extending out towards us? The porcelain has become a glass fishbowl for Newdigate’s microcosms, which are held tenderly, and most definitely magnified, by the crystalline smoothness of Ian Garrett’s forms.
IAN GARRETT
As one of South Africa’s master ceramicists, Ian Garrett featured in CLAY FORMES, a publication by Art Formes on contemporary African ceramics
ZIZIPHO POSWA
South African ceramic artist Zizipho Poswa, whose work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, is featured in CLAY FORMES, an Art Formes publication.
ASTRID DAHL
South African ceramic artist Astrid Dahl makes vessels inspired by botanical forms, featured in the book CLAY FORMES by Art Formes.
LEDELLE MOE
Moe uses concrete to subvert the metaphor of itself. The world of the things we think we know – the seemingly-solid – is memorialised in pieces. The angels are concrete, the concrete is fog.
BEN ORKIN
South African ceramic artist Ben Orkin is featured in CLAY FORMES, an Art Formes publication on contemporary clay from South Africa.
KATHERINE GLENDAY
The skins and material resonances of porcelain act as entry points into ‘the rest of the world’. The vessel becomes a literal echo-chamber for light and sound, stillness and movement..