'My Collecton' 2012

This piece of work pictured below is what I produced for my degree show at Loughborough University and it was also on show at New Designers in London the other week.

 

My Collection; bone china, various glazes, fine silver, copper, wood; 2012.

This is about me collecting my day to day work. Each tile has numbers inscribed into the surface which records the date which it was made, and which glaze was used. I wanted to use this kind of recording or cataloguing to emphasis that this group of ceramic tiles is a collection.

A tile from My Collection.

In the past my work has looked into what other people may collect or hoard, but with this piece I wanted to focus on making a collection that is completely my own.

My Collection; bone china, various glazes, fine silver, copper, wood; 2012.

I am interested in repetition and multiples. These tiles depict circles because for me they are the ultimate symbol of repetition, they are never ending. By also using a simple shape instead of an image there is no distraction, you can get straight to what the work is actually about. 

My work always seems to provoke feelings in me of the human soul.  I use circles quite often within my work; I imagine little orbs that are floating and that these orbs could be little souls. If the soul did exist then we would all be never ending like circles.
 

A tile from My Collection.

All my work is for sale. This collection can be sold in individual strips, as a whole, or as many as the customer would like. I designed it this way to make it flexible for customers. There are 15 strips, each made up of 7 tiles.