Natural Forms Sculpture Project Year 9 Natural Forms Sculpture Project Artists to Inspire

Artists http://collection.britishcouncil.org

Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present Peter Randall-Page is an extraordinary British sculptor and visual artist whose connection to nature began in the Sussex countryside. For Randall-Page, organic forms are places to begin, shapes that push the artist to explore his own response to them. Three Fruit , Kilkenny limestone, 1986

Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present Seed

Alice R Ballard 1945 - Present http://aliceballard.com/index.html Alice R Ballard works as a ceramicist based in Greenville, South Carolina. ‘My art is a reflection of my relationship with natural forms. It is often the metamorphosis of Nature's forms, as they change from season to season, that attracts me to that universal world in which differing life forms share similar qualities.’ ‘Pods’

Alice R Ballard Vessels

Alice R Ballard Platters

Alice R Ballard Pinch Pots

Lucy Unwin Lucy Unwin was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and grew up and was educatued in East Anglia. She studied Fine Art Sculpture at Winchester School of Art graduating in 2006 with a BA in Fine Art Sculpture. Since graduation she has continued to develop her work in both metal and stone, working towards exhibitions as well as working to commission. She is now working in a studio in the inspirational Cotswolds countryside. Esqueleto IIOriginalAlabaster36cm x 25cm x 25cm SnettishamOriginalCararra Marble28cm x 55cm x 28cm

Anne Goldman Anne Goldman has been involved in ceramics for over twenty years. Her work is represented extensively in galleries, museums and private collections throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and has been featured in numerous one-woman shows. "Nature is so perfect. It's just all there -- the formations, the caves, bones & stones. What I attempt to express is my love and reverence for the beauty of this earth. Clay is my language." -- Anne Coastal Rock Vase

"While hiking in Havasu Canyon, an offshoot of the Grand Canyon, it began to rain heavily. Water poured over the walls of the canyon, very beautiful to see. This gave me the idea for this particular texture."

Carol Alleman Carol’s artistic inclination combines her ability to transform emotion into word and object through her own curiosity, love of nature and life experience. The common thread, both in the approach and work itself, directs her mystical life journey. She exhibits across North America while realizing an international collector base. Her work is greatly appreciated by a highly diverse base of collectors: especially those with a love of Tiffany, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Traditional, Asian and even Contemporary design. Carol Alleman, Transitions II, Cast Bronze Edition of 12, 42" x 25"

Carol Alleman 
AZ 
Trillium
Cast Bronze, edition of 111
6 x 5.5

Charlotte Hupfield I create handmade individual one-off pieces that are predominately made in stoneware, which are influenced by the decorative and colourful elements of the landscape. 

I am currently based in Northamptonshire and my work ranges from collections of vases, bowls, sculptural vessels, clocks, coasters, wall plaques and magnets. 

My main construction method is hand building.  Decorative details include adding tiny flecks of glass or chunks of leather-hard clay into the surface when the clay is soft, as well as painting decorative coloured slips onto my own handmade textured printing blocks, which I then roll onto sheets of clay before using to construct forms.

Dale Chihuly Chihuly was born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington. He was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. Chihuly has created more than a dozen well-known series of works, among them Cylinders and Baskets in the 1970s; Seaforms, Macchia, Venetians, and Persians in the 1980s; Niijima Floats and Chandeliers in the 1990s; and Fiori in the 2000s. His website … http://www.chihuly.com/home.aspx

Dale Chihuly

Ikuko Iwamoto “I make exquisite cups and other objects for a bizarre tea ceremony. They suggest the 
everyday, the ordinary, but are in fact extra-ordinary. They are the vehicle to make 
visible an invisible, microscopic world. A world of intricacy and detail, of mathematical 
pattern and organic chaos, of beauty and repulsion.” Ikuko is especially curious about invisible things such as sounds, music and the microscopic world – cells, genes and organic forms. Her functional pieces are still influenced by her ceramic sculpture forms and this is what customers find most appealing – the handmade quality of her work, where every little detail is individually crafted. This meticuolous level of detail also seems curiously appropriate for a subject matter that includes the tiniest of sea creatures and the minutest of micro-organisms. Ikuko expalins, “I like to make invisible things visible”.

Ikuko Iwamoto ensyme wall sculptures (2008)

Ikuko Iwamoto Silver sea urchin and white sea urchin containers (2006)

Ikuko Iwamoto small spiky beakers (2008)

Clare Twomey The themes of Clare's work are influenced by observations of human interaction and political behaviour. The bodies of work can have varying themes. Clare continues to develop work, which pursues her interest in space, architectural interventions and the gallery as destination. Installation at V&A comprising 4000 birds made from Wedgwood Jasper Blue clay which flooded the Cast Courts over a temporary period and could be taken away by audiences.

Clare Twomey's Specimen, 2009

Kate Malone 1959 - Present Kate Malone was born in London; she studied at Bristol Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. After graduating she set up a studio in London and has recently acquired a studio in the country. Malone is concerned with organic forms and her work is strongly sculptural. Her pots take on the forms of vessels and although her works look as though they should function, that is not their prime motivation for Malone sees herself as a 'maker of decorative objects'. 

Malone's shapes - gourds, pumpkins, pineapples and the like - are drawn from nature and celebrate fecundity. She works with T material clay which is more often associated with industrial ceramics; this material is white and renders her glazes bright. She has a number of basic forms which begin as a coiled piece and are then, as she describes, "dressed, like people wearing different coats" with additions of press moulds and modelling on the surface. Malone uses a bright and vibrant palette that gives her works a strong visual impact. The interior glazes are applied with a slip trailer and swilled around, and the exterior painted with big brushes.

MOTHER PINEAPPLE EPERGNE 1997

Kate MaloneGreen Sprucey Nut Lidded Box, 2006 Crystalline glazed stoneware

Kate Malone, Pumpkin

Hitomi Hosono Hitomi wanted to remind people of the origins of tea and the cultural connections with the Far East that have been created over 400 years of tea-drinking in Europe. These links are now often forgotten or taken for granted.Hitomi’s unique sprig technique was developed while she studied collections at the Wedgwood factory in Etruria, Stoke-on- Trent in 2009 just before the company folded. Ironically, the collapse of the British ceramics industry is largely due to the cheaper costs of manufacturing in China.Image from Teatopia, Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery 1 July – 24 October 2010 To the right Hosono installing her new commission for Teatopia

Hitomi Hosono, Leaves Bowl

Nuala O'Donovan Pinecone Series Porcelain, high-fired and unglazed. Date 2007, 2008, 2009.This work in this series is based on a pattern found in a pinecone. It uses the characteristics of fractal forms in nature by multiplying the pattern and form within the overall finished piece.

Andy Goldsworthy (1956 − ) SWEET CHESTNUT LEAF HORN1987

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present Kusama is a Japanese American artist who works in a wide variety of media and techniques – prints, sculptures and installations. Her starting point is often natural form.

Steve Royston-Brown These works are a combination of two-dimensional printmaking and the physical form. ‘Taxonomy - After Haeckel I & II’ These pieces look similar to corals and shells. ‘Taxonomy - After Haeckel III’