Founders
In March 1991, we started renting a semi-detached house in Three Anchor Bay. The first floor was divided into living quarter and a large...
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Johannes Scott
Jul 183 min read
ANGELS: Berlinda De Bruyckere
‘Berlinde De Bruyckere. City of Refuge III’, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibit
Johannes Scott
Feb 116 min read
Art for Care
Everyone is an artist, the German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys once famously proclaimed...
Johannes Scott
May 27, 20237 min read
TO SAVE A GHOST
:the station panels of Pierneef. Johannes Scott, May 2023. Under the auspices of the Union of South Africa, J H Pierneef’s Station Panels...
Johannes Scott
Mar 23, 20235 min read
SKULL OF BEAUTY
Johannes J Scott – March 2023 It is often said that one must have an eye for art to see such beauty. The proverbial rebuttal that 'your'...
Johannes Scott
Jan 25, 20238 min read
BREAKING SALON: SANG art collection
Johannes Scott – January 2023 With exhibition halls designed in the fashion of a boutique hotel and walls styled in Salon tradition, the...
Johannes Scott
Oct 18, 20226 min read
Celebrities forsake Ego for Art
Nick Cave, Thomas Houseago, and Brad Pitt at Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland: 18.9.2022 – 15.1.2023 Johannes Scott While...
Johannes Scott
Apr 28, 20226 min read
CERAMIC FORM
Ceramic discipline is practiced in various specialist forms such as engineering, design, modern art, and traditional form. Ceramic...
Johannes Scott
Apr 26, 20225 min read
CURATORS
Art is a centaur made half of words, half of artistic material, and words are the active element, noted the art critic Harold Rosenberg.
Johannes Scott
Nov 15, 202110 min read
GLORY AND UNCANNY
Foucault and Lacan interpret the gaze of authority operative in a painting that signals the rupture between Classical and Modern knowledge.
Johannes Scott
Feb 19, 20216 min read
Ceramic Grammar and Sublimation
The series of porcelain sculptures appropriates the conventional ceramic form of 18th century rococo figurines.
Johannes Scott
Aug 12, 20204 min read
The Art of Ceramic Memory
‘In my opaque vitrines, objects move between profile and dimensionality, blur into a haze and come suddenly into focus. Which is how...
Johannes Scott
Jun 20, 202010 min read
MASTER POTTER: exploring the ‘master’
–MASTERS 1: The Western master – In a short essay titled Leach in Japan, Soyetsu Yanagi writes that Bernard Leach should have been...
Johannes Scott
Jun 14, 20207 min read
BERNARD LEACH: St. Ives Pottery, Cornwall England.
Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1920, Bernard Leach, together with Shoji Hamada, sailed to England from Japan to establish St. Ives...
Johannes Scott
Jun 8, 20204 min read
FIRESTARTER: the art of pyrometry
Like in Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, where his character mysteriously manipulates fire to the amazement of huge crowds, the...
Johannes Scott
Jun 1, 20204 min read
DECORATION
There are three primary stages for application of conventional decoration: on green ware, on biscuit ware, and on glaze ware. Application...
Johannes Scott
May 25, 20202 min read
GLAZE: introduction
The ancient technology of glazing pottery was discovered in Mesopotamia and Egypt in about the 8th or 9th century B.C. A glass-like,...
Johannes Scott
May 15, 20203 min read
HANDBUILDING: methods
Pinching: Hollow out a cavity in a small ball of clay using the right (if right-handed) thumb, while slowly rotating the ball in the cup...
Johannes Scott
Apr 26, 20204 min read
CLAY: bodies
Standardised, ready-made clay bodies do not need additional preparations. The pugmill process of manufacturing had removed air pockets...
Johannes Scott
Apr 19, 20203 min read
CLAY: origins
For a more in-depth understanding of clay, one needs to distinguish between the natural conception of clay and the standardised clay...
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