art.garvey
Sculpture 2020-2024
This is a fairly recent F I N D which always gets me excited and the cogs start to churn...
What is this wheel doing here? who did it belong to? why didnt they take their discarded stuff home?
how can I use it?
what do I want to say?
As the wheel was found by the local canal I start to think of the environment; geography; climate; repurposing; and natural resources.
By the time I reach home carrying said rusty wheel I realise I have two ageing unused clothes props.....hmmm!
Waterwheel, (2023) is a pun on words but allude to the potential of using yesteryears ideas when water wheels and windmills provided for our needs.
A work in progress......
HOUSE (2022)
BEINGS (2019/20)
Chicken wire, mod roc, paper, rubber, plinth
Beings were born out of the isolation of covid pandemic and subsequent lockdown situations 2019/2020.
They were my friends and shared my house, having adventures and covert tea-parties when people were disallowed from meeting each other.
Modroc woman and newspaper chair (2020)
Ceramic vessels 2023-2024
Big news was participating in a 4 day intensive surface pattern workshop with Clay Yorkshire's Rebecca Appleby at Longside studios, Yorkshire Sculpture Park October 2023, one of the pieces 'ceramic self portrait' was chosen to be exhibited at the Old Parcel Office annual open exhibition Scarborough 2024.
Other great news was taking part in a 6 week ceramic hand building workshop with Tim Copsey at the Sculpture Lounge, Holmebridge West Yorkshire, in September 2023.
More local news was taking part in Brier Hey's pottery annual raku event spring 2023, and then again May 2024
CERAMIC FEAST 2020-2024 (more recent first)
I have been working with clay for around four years, and my practice is still developing. I work intuitively and I rarely have a plan, but ultimately I want to carry on exploring and experimenting with shape/form/colour; making interconnections between craft, concept and expressive ways of communication.
This piece tested my patience AND then........ I accidentally dropped it pre bisque, and now
I l o v e it.
Wrap (2022)
Hold me touch me
Slip monoprint
oh shiny transparent glaze.
My work is instinctive. I have often thought about planning but, so far this has been a whimsical after-thought. That said I have invested in a beautiful handmade journal which is being used to design and plan my current portfolio of interior ceramic pieces.
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Sail-Away (2023)
For reasons unknown as yet I am attracted to boats as a method of transport, habitat and traverse from lands to the freedom of the waters, and so every now and then a vessel will appear in my work!
Against all odds, (2023) is an early naive hand-built stoneware ceramic bowl, made using two different clay bodies over a plaster former. There were creases on the inside which had gone unnoticed and a sizeable crack where the clay had started to lose moisture and yet, remarkably survived both bisque and stoneware temperatures.
I am drawn to its vulnerability and viability, relating the correlation towards all living things.
Against-all-odds (2023)
Post bisque firing oxide and transparent glaze, showing two types of clay.
Smother Love (2019)
Hot-water bottle filled with plaster placed between dyed plaster inbags, recreate impressions and snuggly fit the bottle.
Hot water bottles, blankets, wool & layers.
Cost of living crisis and increasing fuel costs in the UK 2022, make this piece more pertinent than I would have thought back in 2019
Womb Woman(2023)
Air dry clay allows for ceramic freedom without the use of a kiln.
Self Soothing Woman
