Kate Bowman Making things with communities, usually with clay
personal practice
Also interested in the space that a pot occupies, and the small body of air that each vessel contains within it, I make each clay piece as a conversation or a negotiation between the pot and the surrounding environment. Its form is decided by my hands, but is also influenced by the a steady drying breeze, by the humidity in the air, by the beam of the sun- it is a product of a place.
Further viewing the pot as a vessel with a geography of its own, I add additional almost-handles, small lugs to hold the eye and the hand as they move around each piece.
Glazed in pale tones of shell and bone, my pots feature simple glazes using clays of the south-west and hardwood ash, and are all fired in an electric kiln.
I am a potter, and I make functional pots to be held by bodies- clasped in hands, used for food and steeped teas, and dangled around necks.
My practice is one deeply rooted in place, in the very real sense of a wider community and with a radical connection to the land beneath our feet.
Fascinated by the complex possibilities and writhing life in every handful of raw clay, I make using the technique of pinch pottery. An ancient, immediate methodology of making that relies simply on a pair of hands and a fistful of clay to work with, it is a way of working that allows and encourages me to make work in a wide variety of wild places.
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