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View Image Gallery Adele Goulty(Full member)

Artists Statement

Every spare minute of our lives someone is demanding our attention. The media and the commercial world have a fear of silence, the world follows us around to make sure we are listening. Silence is essential for self development and growth, but where is the opportunity for silence in todays world?

My work is a reflection of the peace and tranquillity often lacking in our lives, the silence that is so often shattered. As Arvo Part the composer said "For in silence the most wonderful sounds are discovered". The sound of the wind in the sail, the limitless space of the ocean, the endless horizon.

The Abbey du Thoronet in Provence with its simplicity and purity of form offers the same comparable solitude, tranquillity, and sense of place. An awareness often lacking in the hectic pace of modern life. The clarity of light and vibrancy of colour found in Provence have also had a direct bearing on surface decoration. The form is generated from the flowing graceful lines of sail which also impart tension and strength through hi-tech design. However, without the unpredictable wind they have neither grace nor beauty. It is this same unpredictability created by fire in contrast to the controlled form which saggar and raku firing offer. As with the wind the fire has the final control not the designer/maker.

Paul Soldner, Magdalene Odundo and in particular David Roberts have had influences on my work. Whilst having previously experimented with raku firing it was only after a weekend working with David Roberts that my conversion to fuming and raku firing became complete. As David Leach says of the raku potter "The direct handling of live flame, fires the pyromaniac imagination to experiment", my experimentation continues.

In 1998 I moved to the South of France where I continue to work in what to me are the most idyllic surroundings, beautiful scenery, incredible light, tranquil and surrounded by an endless source of visual inspiration.

The image I seek to convey in my work is best expressed by a quote from the 'Cahier de Georges Braque':

"The vase gives form to the empty space and music to silence"

Current Work

Since moving to France I have been running pottery courses, both residential and for the local French community. My focus is now on making and exhibiting more of my work, following my first exhibition in the UK since 1997 at 'The Riverhouse Barn' at Walton-on Thames in Surrey at the end of 2000. Prices of my current work are generally in the range £55 - £250, depending on size and complexity. Please contact me as above for more information on availability.

Technical Information/ Method of Working

All the forms are coil built using a mixture of 'T' material and stoneware clay. The outer surfaces of the forms are slipped and burnished using a metal spoon and a smooth pebble, the pieces are then bisc fired to 900 deg.c.

The saggar fired forms are treated with latex rubber and soluble salts to create the decorative surface. The saggar is a large oval pot which is placed inside the kiln and filled with fine sawdust around the form, sealed and fired to 850 deg. c. Saggars were originally used in the pottery industry to protect the ceramics from impurities in the kiln during firing. The saggar allows me to do the reverse - to introduce carbon and fuming from the solulable salts onto the surface of the forms.

The raku forms have a resist slip applied to the surface followed by a low firing raku glaze, and are then fired in a gas raku kiln. Once the correct temperature is reached the form is immediately removed from the kiln using large padded gauntlets or metal tongs. On removal from the kiln the form is placed into a dustbin containing sawdust and left for twenty minutes. After which time the glaze peels off almost like an egg shell revealing the carbon marked burnished surface.

History

Background & Training
1952 Born 27 May.
1992 - 1995 BA (Hons) Ceramics: Surrey Institute of Art & Design .
1998 onwards Moved to the South of France, setting up workshop and starting pottery courses.

Exhibitions


1995 James Hockey Gallery,Farnham
Butlers Wharf, London
'New Designers' Business Design Centre, Islington, London
'Setting Out' CPA Contemporary Ceramics Gallery, Marshall St., London W1
The Catto Gallery, 100 Heath St., Hampstead, London (2 shows)
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
Forest Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Guildford, Surrey
Cecilia Coleman Gallery, 67 St. Johns Wood High St, London
Montpellier Gallery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
CCA Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
1996 The Railings Gallery, 5 New Cavendish St, London (3 shows)
New Designers Exhibition, 'One Year On' Islington, London
Decorex International, Syon Park, Middlesex
Design Resolutions, Royal Festival Hall, London
Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury
1997 Exhibited with 'New Designers in Business' Earls Court London
Exhibited with 'Design Resolutions' Earls Court London
Montpellier Gallery, Stratford upon Avon
Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury
Decorex International Syon Park
Design Resolutions 97 Royal Festival Hall, London
2000 Riverhouse Barn, Walton, Surrey

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Last Updated: 2008-05-28
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