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Marcello De Simone & Bruce Wayland

  • Ceramicist
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Master Artisan
Marcello De Simone & Bruce Wayland Ceramicist
Contact
Dutch, English, Italian
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+31 618117689
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Ceramic wall art

  • • Bruce and Marcello's mutual passion to create spurred a partnership
  • • The creative duo joined forces in 2009
  • • Experimentation with clay is fundamental to them

Marcello De Simone was first introduced to clay during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and again through a workshop given by ceramicist Marjan de Voogd in Amsterdam. When Marcello and Bruce Wayland met in 2009, there was an instant click, a shared affinity with art and creating. Before long they were working together on their first collaboration, the Altered Perspectives series: an installation of plates in assorted shapes and sizes, which fuses decorative ceramic plates with works of art that share tonal similarities and subject matter, creating a dialogue between the two different media. A fortuitous encounter with ceramicist Pauline Wiertz, during an exhibition in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, sparked the idea of creating their own moulds and cast ceramic plates.

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Works

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Veliero Tray

This tray belongs to an installation of white plates with ceramic transfers designed by De Simone and Wayland on commission for a hotel in Macau. Inspired by 18th and 19th century Oriental subjects, the result is a striking blue and white composition of four panels.

Length 24 cm
Width 13 cm
Height 2 cm

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Moonplates

A Japan inspired plate with a halfmoon-shaped insert in De Simone & Wayland’s signature textile structure. Each plate is painted with contrasting coloured slip with traces of previous casts, giving extra depth to the surface.

Diameter 2 cm

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Small Ovals: composition

A composition of 12 one-of-a-kind Small Ovals. It has taken several years to develop their own technique. Liquid stoneware, coloured with high firing pigments, is slip-cast, cut and shaped by hand into pieces with double face designs.

Length 68 cm
Width 68 cm
Height 2 cm

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Small Oval 004

This oval dish is handcrafted slip-cast stoneware. The colours are Indian yellow, bright yellow and cobalt blue. The dish sits on samples of coloured stoneware of their own making.

Length 22 cm
Width 12.5 cm
Height 2 cm

Find Marcello De Simone & Bruce Wayland in the itinerary

Amsterdam: creativity along the water canals
10 locations
As much as Amsterdam is acclaimed for its floating markets and art, it is also known for its canals and the houses that border them, where financiers, doctors and craftspeople resided in the past. Follow our itinerary to discover present-day artisans who continue to draw inspiration from the city’s waterways.
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