You might have noticed a lot of slip-cast ceramic images for various contemporary ceramic artist these days on my blog. I'm working on some designs for a collaborative slip-casting project with my good friend Disa, and in the process of my research I've been finding some really great work out there that I don't necessarily see on my usual design blog jaunts. One thing I should say here is that I really enjoy doing a lot of research while I'm designing. First off I think it's really imperative to know that your ideas are really your own, not just something that another artist is already doing. It also is an important test of whether your work will hold up beside the work that's already out there.
Anyways, here's the Dutch product/ceramic artist and designer,
Ruth Lodder's work- which I think is really lovely. It's interesting how she caught onto the trend of using 'found objects', in her case various jello molds, glasses, teacups, etc., then stacked them together to create her molds from. Very clever and really lovely as you get all those references to classic shapes that are easily recognizable without being too simplistic! The gold luster and patches of colour are also great- I'm always one to want to use colour to make my work my own and in her case, I think its stunning!
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