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...

‘Berlinde De Bruyckere. City of Refuge III’, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibit

Everyone is an artist, the German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys once famously proclaimed...

: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 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 – January 2023 With exhibition halls designed in the fashion of a boutique hotel and walls styled in Salon tradition, the...

Nick Cave, Thomas Houseago, and Brad Pitt at Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland: 18.9.2022 – 15.1.2023 Johannes Scott While...

Ceramic discipline is practiced in various specialist forms such as engineering, design, modern art, and traditional form. Ceramic...

Art is a centaur made half of words, half of artistic material, and words are the active element, noted the art critic Harold Rosenberg.

Foucault and Lacan interpret the gaze of authority operative in a painting that signals the rupture between Classical and Modern knowledge.

The series of porcelain sculptures appropriates the conventional ceramic form of 18th century rococo figurines.

‘In my opaque vitrines, objects move between profile and dimensionality, blur into a haze and come suddenly into focus. Which is how...

–MASTERS 1: The Western master – In a short essay titled Leach in Japan, Soyetsu Yanagi writes that Bernard Leach should have been...

Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1920, Bernard Leach, together with Shoji Hamada, sailed to England from Japan to establish St. Ives...

Like in Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, where his character mysteriously manipulates fire to the amazement of huge crowds, the...

There are three primary stages for application of conventional decoration: on green ware, on biscuit ware, and on glaze ware. Application...

The ancient technology of glazing pottery was discovered in Mesopotamia and Egypt in about the 8th or 9th century B.C. A glass-like,...

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...

Standardised, ready-made clay bodies do not need additional preparations. The pugmill process of manufacturing had removed air pockets...

For a more in-depth understanding of clay, one needs to distinguish between the natural conception of clay and the standardised clay...