Mella Shaw Ceramics

Mella shaw harvest.

Mella shaw ceramics. When clay vitrifies into ceramics in the dark behind the closed doors of a kiln. Black tumbling form. Mella is exhibitions manager at the fitzwilliam museum cambridge a role she combines with her own practice as an artist maker and with teaching and writing about ceramics. Mella shaw s site for donations to the harvest project.

Mella shaw is a clay based artist creating thought provoking objects and site specific installations underpinned by a background in anthropology museums and the study of material culture. Black tumbling form stained stoneware. By utilising the pyroplasticity of porcelain where the clay body sags warps or. We are delighted to announce that british artist mella shaw is combining forces with us to promote the recircle message.

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Mella shaw artist maker. Force majeure french for a superior or irresistible power is a term used in the writing of legal contracts to free both parties from obligation in the face of extraordinary natural events or disasters from war to hurricanes or earthquakes. Black tumbling form stained stoneware. Featuring hundreds of exquisitely detailed clay press moulded.

In 2013 she graduated with distinction from the ma ceramics and glass royal college of art london and was profiled in crafts magazine ceramic review and axisweb. My artwork installation harvest will be entirely hand made from ceramics and will include hundreds of ceramic fish and slip cast plastic containers smoke fired to give a range of surface colours and patterns. Mella whose stunning installation harvest was featured at the collect open saatchi gallery 2018 london and is currently on a nationwide tour is passionate about the threat to the oceans from plastic.