6 week ceramic courses run on a monday tuesday or wednesday evening tuesday mornings.
Ceramics and the human figure.
All courses run all year round in dublin studio.
Hybrid figures combining human and animal forms are a strong and current theme in contemporary visual arts and particularly in the field of ceramics.
All materials glazes firing and use of equipment and tools included in fees.
The human figure has been represented in clay throughout history and continues to evolve today.
The artists in this chapter all push our understanding of the human form by using hybridization in their practice.
The text also explores the role of figurative ceramics through history and in contemporary contexts.
Weekend courses run once a month for 1 or 2 days.
Divided by broad themes each chapter explores a variety of expressive works.
Ceramics and the human figure features the works of a range of international ceramic artists all practicing within the fields of installation and sculpture.
Artists are working with the figure in new ways playing with materials and forms and making use of new technologies to produce challenging and unconventional work from the intact whole figure to the fragmented hybrid and abstract ceramics and the human figure profiles an international range of.
From exploring the whole figure through fragmentation to the use of the body as a means to create artists today are working with clay and the human form in very unconventional ways across the globe.