Over the last few weeks, I have felt a deepening appreciation for the handmade - the inspired crafting of miniature tableau, whimsical creatures of a freed imagination, cards and letters, handmade ceramic sculptures exploring the everyday, hand-made brochures inspired by British garden birds. Some have been crafted anew; others remade through the use of vintage fabrics, founds objects - discovered, re-created, revealing at every stage, a new imprint that of the maker.
Handmade London takes me beyond my original idea of a London table and a website based on a series of walks dedicated to eat, drink, cook, ware. So from time to time, I will collate these finds as a part of London Food Essentials but in the meanwhile, I encourage you to visit the following: Cornercopia, 65 Brixton Village Market, SW9 8PS. Tel 07919542233 Brixi, Unit 7 Brixton Village, London SW9 8PR Tel: 07919 162428 Circus, Unit 70, Brixton Village SW9 8PR Tel 07736 679676 Loop, 15 Camden Passage, N1 8EA, Tel 0207 288 1160 Etoile, 41 Cross Street, N1 2BB, Tel 020 7354 1396 Maud & Mabel, Hampstead Antique Emporium, 12 Heath Street NW3 6TE Kirstin Stride, www.kirstinstride.com Kaori Tatebayashi, www.kaoriceramics.tumblr.com/ I will continue to update this list but I recommend the beautiful blog, Makers Market, for inspirational handmade finds.
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"The nature of fired clay incorporates both fragility and permanence and it is this which enables the material to record elusive things like memory." Kaori Tatebayashi Extraordinary is the only way I can find to describe the work of Kaori Tatebayashi. This ceramicist/ sculptor exquisitely crafts her tableware and objects, exposing the folds and textures of individual forms whether they be organic or man-made. Her most recent offering for Ceramic Art London is a series of simple still-life. Displayed in wooden market crates, each contains vignettes of domestic life. A box of vegetables sits next to a collection of garden tools that are in turn framed by a series of boxes. Small children's shoes lie abandoned. A posy has just been dropped and awaits its owner. Each of object captures as Tatebayashi suggests "the elusive things like memory". Kaori Tatebayashi grew up surrounded by ceramics, first living in Arita and Kyoto, Japan. She is an award winning ceramicist. She studied ceramics at Kyoto City University of Art (both Bachelors and Masters) from 1991-97. During the initial year of her Masters degree she was awarded a scholarship for the Royal College of Art. In 2006, she won the Crafts Council Development Award and set up her workshop at 401¼ Studios in Wandsworth, London. She widely exhibits throughout the UK and Japan. (All images are taken from the artist's blog. ) You would be forgiven for mistaking Stuart Carey’s ceramics for a still-life, so close is his tableware collection to the quiet intimacy of this familiar genre. Made of thrown semi-porcelain stoneware, each set is beautifully crafted from a palette of muted blues, creams and white. No two pieces are the same, as each is lifted from the wheel whilst wet, allowing individual movements to define the finished object.
The intimacy of functional objects is the inspiration behind this collection, with Carey producing pieces that demonstrate the sentiment that we can attach to everyday objects. “What I want to highlight is how we build similar relationships with functional ceramics as we do with one and other and attempt to produce pieces that demonstrate this interaction and make the user feel something on a physical and emotional level.” Carey is exhibiting this weekend at the Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, April 12 -14, 2013. Further details about his work and upcoming exhibitions can be found on his website. /www.stuartcarey.co.uk/. |
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