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Peter Fink

  • Ceramicist
  • Ependes-Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Master Artisan
Peter Fink Ceramicist
Contact
German, English, French, Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+41 264134442
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Reshaping the world through craft

  • • Peter has over 30 years of experience
  • • He feels crafts enable us to reshape the world
  • • He is passionate about passing on his knowledge

Peter Fink may not have a degree in his craft, but he does have three decades of experience. His passion for working with clay was sparked during a ceramics workshop in the Eifel mountains, Germany. “I was able to witness a traditional salt firing at its peak. The mixture of tradition and technique, the art of creating intricately glazed ceramics just from wood, salt and earth in a very simple way fascinated me so much that I wanted to follow this path to see where it would lead me," he says. Thirty years later, Peter has become an internationally renowned ceramicist whose expertise and understanding of the material are often sought out by others looking for help in realising their ideas.

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Works

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  • © Peter Fink
Photo: © Josefina Muñoz
Paysages Désertiques

This stoneware sculpture, sintered at a low temperature, was made for the Arts & Crafts & Design: Time according to ECAL and Swiss Craftsmen exhibition, produced in partnership with ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne) and the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in Milan, presented in the Swiss Pavilion at Expo Milan 2015.

Diameter 50 cm

Photo: © Peter Fink
Barbavase

These stoneware vases, wheel-thrown and sintered at a low temperature, were inspired by the Barbarpapas.

Height 25 cm

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Suhr – limited edition

This earthenware plate was made in collaboration with François Berthoud to commemorate 140 years of Pfister. It comes in a limited series of numbered pieces in white or black.

Diameter 58 cm

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Gôh Anan

These earthenware piggy banks were inspired by West African Dogon culture and created in collaboration with the designers Ismael and Nathan Studer.

Diameter 18 cm

Photo: © Peter Fink
Captain Cook

These ceramic sculptures were inspired by cooking devices from Polynesia.

Length 35 cm

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