Jack Tan

Thrown porcelain, £2.50

Thrown porcelain, £1.99

Thrown porcelain, £5.99

The Ceramics Course at Harrow offers students intensive ,practical,analytical and critical experiences which equip them with the skills and technologies of the contemporary practitioner, and as such the degree show is the first opportunity to exhibit the work which is the culmination of their time here.

The degree show this year reflects the broad range of activities explored by our students, artefacts range from exquisite tableware to intriguing ceramic installations. Ideas are rigorously explored, whilst materials are pushed to their limits and surfaces reflect a wide range of extraordinary ceramic possibilities. Pots with jewel like glazes contrast with raw wood fired constructions, rich porcelain platters sit near elegant monolithic pieces and spaces are completely transformed through the expressive use of this versatile material. As always the exhibition at Harrow challenges and explores such a wide range of ideas that it never fails to surprise and delight an audience.

London Gallery West

Private View:
Tues 14th June
5:30 - 8:30

Show Opens:
Weds 15th June - Sun 19th June
11am-8pm Weekdays
11am-5pm Weekends

I make pots for use with hand and mouth, for food and drink; but I also intend and understand ‘use’ beyond a minimal functionality. I do not espouse the art/craft divide. My pots are enquiries into the vessel as object of formal interest and they are metaphors for feelings.

Domestic pots are privileged to be part of the deepest fabric of life: they enter private life in unique and various ways. I endeavour to celebrate the intimate qualities which are particularly nurtured in the domestic environment: quiet, calm, comfort, slowness, sensuality. The pots are intended to invite the nursing hand; to celebrate the intimacy implicit in pots which touch food and drink. Making objects by hand seems to be in keeping with this endeavour.

For this project I have worked in porcelain, thrown and altered forms, and fired to 1240. The colouring agents in the glazes combine commercial stains with oxides. The lids serve a dual function: retaining heat and acting as saucer or, in the case of the larger pieces, as additional serving dish.