A pair of bell-shaped ceramic vessels with spouts placed on the diagonal. One is made from black stoneware clay decorated in black slip with a geometric pattern. The other is made from white stoneware clay decorated in white slip with a similar geometric pattern. There is a subtle tonal difference between the clay body and the slip colour. The surface is tactile and inviting to touch.
Length 44 cm
Width 20 cm
Height 25 cm
© Björk Haraldsdóttir
© Björk Haraldsdóttir
© Björk Haraldsdóttir
© Björk Haraldsdóttir
© Cavaliero Finn
Björk Haraldsdóttir
- Ceramicist
- Lyme Regis, United Kingdom
- Master Artisan
© Björk Haraldsdóttir
Clay stole her from architecture
- • Björk is a trained architect with a keen understanding of construction
- • She creates monoliths of pattern in clay
- • Her work is both technically skilful and personal
Before starting a career in ceramics, Björk Haraldsdóttir worked as an architect for various high profile studios including Richard Rogers Architects. Changing her career after many years, happened in a fluid way through part time training and a significant amount of self-teaching and experimentation. Her work as a ceramicist has strong architectural influences. It is a conversation between 3-dimensional form and bold monochrome 2-dimensional pattern. Yet there is a personal touch: each piece is hand built and the patterns used are created from traditional Nordic textiles or patterns in nature which echo back to her childhood in Iceland. Each design is painstakingly carved into the pieces with a skilful hand.
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Photo: © Cavaliero Finn
Blackness and the Dreaming Soul
Photo: © Messums
Identity III
This bell-shaped ceramic pot has a spout placed diagonally. The pattern is scored into the slipped body and then scraped away to reveal a black and white geometric pattern. The technique also creates a surface texture. The scrape marks are visible, an invitation to touch. The pattern is ribbon like, made up of rectangular rows and columns divided into triangles.
Length 46 cm
Width 22 cm
Height 27 cm
Photo: © Messums
Identity IV
Bell-shaped ceramic pot with a spout placed diagonally. The pattern is scored into the slipped body and scraped away to reveal a black and white geometric pattern. As well as creating a pattern, the technique also creates a surface texture. The scrape marks are visible, braille like and inviting to touch. The pattern on this piece is made up of wide vertical columns and narrow horizontal rows. A lozenge shape is then drawn and scraped off at the end of each column and this alternates down vertically creating the pattern.
Length 46 cm
Width 22 cm
Height 27 cm
Photo: © Messums
Identity V
A bell-shaped ceramic pot with a spout placed diagonally. The pattern is scored into the slipped body and then scraped away to reveal a black and white geometric pattern. The technique also creates a surface texture. The scrape marks are visible, and inviting to touch. The pattern explores geometry in a random pattern created with squares, rectangles and triangles.
Length 46 cm
Width 22 cm
Height 27 cm
Photo: © Messums
Identity II
Bell-shaped ceramic pot with a spout placed diagonally. The pattern is scored into the slipped body and then scraped away to reveal a black and white geometric pattern. The technique also creates a surface texture. The scrape marks are visible and inviting to touch. The pattern is a geometric pattern created from rows, columns and diagonal lines drawn across the main pattern. This creates a regular monochromatic pattern of triangular shapes.
Length 46 cm
Width 22 cm
Height 27 cm
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