BA (Hons) Ceramics 2006 |
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KIERAN MONTEFIORE
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Over the last year I have experimented with different combinations of lines and curves. I have found that a set of horizontal bands, intersected with spirals creates an almost illusionary effect. I highlight this further with my choice of contrasting colours and the use of directional spraying, which creates false shadows on the piece. The surface of the pieces is coated in terra-sigilatta, a fine particle slip, to which I have added brightly coloured stains. My original form was developed from studying exoskeletons from the animal world. My ideas have since moved on and inspiration has been taken from architecture, buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Sydney Opera House, Australia. All of these sources share one thing in common, the layered segments that make their profile and it is this that I have used as a constant in my own work. Ceramists Wouter Dam and Julian Stair have had very strong influences on my way of working, the edges they create in their pieces are crisp and precise and the glazes help to show off these qualities. The use of shadows in my work is very important to define and accentuate the overall form so the work of Nicholas Arroyave Portella has helped greatly in my exploration, especially his method of directional spraying. |
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My work is an investigation into the action of throwing. The wheel provides a constant centrifugal force, it is this force that I am trying to celebrate. I use the wheel to produce the vessel form, the evidence of its creation is left on each piece in the form of throwing lines. 
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