About pottery/ceramics…
“She knew how little you need to do to make something alive” Edmund de Waal on Lucie Rie
"Ceramics is unique - it combines form and surface. Painting is about surface, sculpture is form. Ceramics combines the two together” Craig Underhill
“I have this theory that people and potters, throughout time, respond to nature and to clay in the same way” Kate Malone
“These pots were designed to be quiet pots that could merge into the timeless atmosphere amongst the trees. The ceramic vessel is most importantly a medium for creative personal expressionism” John Ward
“I suspect that pots can be allegorical objects in which the only essential physical function is the minimal one of containing” Elizabeth Fritsch
“Flattening is a mode of expression used by mainly Japanese potters who shun the perfect round form in order to achieve a vessel of deeper intensity” Antje Scharfe
“I do ceramics about ceramics. A joyful experiment between kitchen cabinet and museum. A test arrangement could be called ‘Shifting of the usefulness of a vessel from hand to heart to brain’” Antje Scharfe
About still lives…
“Why have painters cared so much about depicting pots and pans? What do they stand for - slices of life? Symbols of domestic or intimate selves? … The objects are about life and still life at once. They can be used but their function is partly frozen in a reflection about themselves” Alison Britton
“He made art that was contemplative but edgy in a way that remains relevant, The seeming neutrality and constancy of Morandi’s work leaves room for projection and has allowed artists to take from it many things” about Giorgio Morandi
“There are no people in his work, because he, and we, are the people. It has an inner sense of calm that, perhaps, is even more sought after now than when he was alive. Exactly because solitude is a lost ideal, we seem compelled to look for it more and more” Nigel Coates on Morandi
“What appear to be still lives of the most mundane kind… speak of intrigue and intimacy, of not quite touching. To me the colours describe subtle shifts in mood. The spaces he leaves between the objects become pregnant pauses begging to be broken.” Cornelia Parker on Morandi
About nature…
“As her senses wander they receive impressions which lead her to insights into the continuity and connectedness between herself and the external world. These insights came from a form of stillness and a particular quality of open attention” on Margiad Evans
General…
“Art is the morality of breaking the rules” Frank Auerbach
“In a world full of war, famine, floods, conflict and shitty politics, perhaps we need a place to play. To dream of a different alternative. It won’t solve world peace but might provide a place to breathe and act as a reminder that there is good in the world”.
“Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness” TS Eliot