Fragment Bowl

Fragment Bowl in ceramic by South Australian artist Stephen Bowers

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

‘I make a type of pottery widely known as ‘earthenware’ with decoration covered by a clear glaze. This glaze, like the glaze often found on traditional Staffordshire and other earthenware, may across time develop a ‘crazed’ appearance, where the surface layer of glaze exhibits a series of fine cracks. Continuously developing across the years this is a natural characteristic of earthenware and is often looked for in antique pieces as indicators of their age and authenticity.

Over the years I have collaborated and worked with many Adelaide potters, including Stephanie Livesey, Philip Hart, Kirsten Coelho and, for sculptural objects, Andrew Stock. I most often work with Mark Heidenreich of Terravilla Pottery near the Central Markets. He makes pots – I decorate them. When painting pots, images are necessarily altered as they transpose onto curved 3D form, continually micro-adjusted as composition flows onto or wraps around the pot.’

PRODUCT DETAILS:

Dimensions: 
Ceramic Society: 40.5 x 230 ; 574g
Hadley's Foliage: 50 x 210.5 ; 612g

Materials: ceramic

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Handmade in Australia.