Work in progress

Summer adventures

Berlin wall

Berlin  Biennalle

Concrete blocks looks like clay wedges

Saudi embassy in Berlin

In Opposition.

I'm rather pleased with the leadership election results. Congrats to Ed Milband, younger siblings are always cooler.

im starting with..

Trade Union banners.

Wood cut 1874, State Library Victoria.

Political art at its most emotional and productive. I'm attracted to the hand-made aesthetic and the collaborative making process. It may be time to dust them off and take to the streets again.

this one speaks for itself.

Current reading list.

C.R Ashbee - Workshop Reconstruction and Citizenship & An Endeavour Towards the Teaching of Ruskin and Morris.
J. Ranciére, History, Politics, Aesthetics. ed. G.Rockhill and P. Watts.
Karl Marx, A Reader, ed. Jon Elster
G. Naylor, The Arts and Crafts Movement.
William Morris, News from Nowhere
N. Klein, No Logo
G. Adamson Thinking through craft
j Baudrillard - The System of objects.
Thinking through Things Ed. A. Henare, M Holbraad.

Scary.

Lochinver Salt Firing with Fergus Stewart

our cottage

our neigbour

the kiln

me stoking.

eddie stoking

reduction

bbq

packing

Achmelvich beach

More good folk of Glasgow

Little Rhymes is a great bunch of folk breaking the tired clichés of what a Glasgow arts collective should be... 

http://littlerhymes.tumblr.com/

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Richard Slee and Grayson Perry discuss 'Sausage'

UNTO THIS LAST

I wish I could attend this talk. they will hopefully publish the transcription somewhere.
Glenn Adamson, editor of The Craft reader and co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft, will be in conversation with John Roberts, author of Intangibities of Form, about the re-emergence of contemporary artists adopting craft skills and how this plays out with capitalist modes of production.
this is the link 

imperfections perfected

Article in FT
Article in Guardian

Craft news making the headlines! -well maybe not the headlines, but making the papers at least.

fired up!

Article from the times educational supplement on crafts council initiative to get school firing old kilns.
full article here

The Speed of Craft

Glenn Adamson at Collect, Saatchi Gallery 2010,

Salt firing results

 

          

 

 

plate cracked - bummer.

COLLECT

Steven Bird - War on Pottery.

Just booked my train to london for COLLECT at the Saatchi gallery this weekend... how exciting!

Lochinver

Salt firing with Fergus Stewart
photos on The GSA Ceramics Blog

Some things I was making for the Salt firing....

The textures worked really well. The slips came out the wrong colour but im happy with the results. I'll get them photographed and posted soon.

3rd yr trip to bardon mill!