…Katharine Morling

I feel like Katharine’s work is quickly becoming some of my favourite! The way the media is so disguised makes you want to look at any of her work for ages just capturing what it means to you. She uses ceramics and paints them to bring to life their still life aspects.

I think she manages to create a huge amount of movement in the pieces even though they are just still and sitting there.

My work can be described as 3 dimensional drawings, in the medium of ceramics. Each piece, on the surface, an inanimate object, has been given layers of emotion and embedded with stories, which are open for interpretation in the viewer’s mind.

‘Matches’ is my favourite piece here I think as it is quite a simple form but the movement is portrayed so well, in my opinion, and this makes it really interesting to ‘watch’…

…Week Four…Grayson Perry

GRAYSON PERRY

Perry was born in 1960 in Chelmsford, Essex. Pottery is his main artistic focus, however he has also created various other works from different media such as his ‘Walthamstow’ tapestry. I personally find this particular piece rather disturbing; especially the way that he has depicted the birth and death sections of the life cycle he wanted to portray!

This is a picture of the tapestry, which was displayed in a London exhibition in 2009.

His well known pottery is what Perry does mostly which involves creating often large ceramic pots with engraved images on the sides – sometimes collages – which have themes or tell stories.

Here are some images of these pots…

I am not really a fan of his ceramics either to be perfectly honest! I appreciate the amount of time and skill that is put into them, with the added factor of them sometimes blowing up in the kiln which sets him back to square one rather frequently, but I find it hard to understand the attraction to what is essentially just a decorated clay pot…