Stoneware fired bowl made from ceramic material sourced locally on Slievenamuck Hill. It is a rich dark terracotta colour. A birch basket, burnt off during the firing, provided a former for the soft clay. The echo of the now gone basket is evident in the undulations and marks left on the exterior of the ceramic bowl form. The interior of the bowl is filled with collected beech nut husks.
Length 22 cm
Width 22 cm
Height 19 cm
©Gwen Wilkinson
©Gwen Wilkinson
©Mandy Parslow
©Mandy Parslow
Mandy Parslow
- Ceramicist
- Glen of Aherlow, Ireland
- Master Artisan
Contact
English
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
©Gwen Wilkinson
Ceramics embedded in place and time
- • Mandy's work is raw and emotive
- • The physical environment is captured in her clay
- • She is always seeking something new
Mandy Parslow has studied widely – from traditional skills and 3-D design, to the history of art and architecture. She set up her ceramic studio in the Glen of Aherlow, Co. Tipperary in 1999. Her early work focused on wood-fired, salt-glazed stoneware. Building on this foundation, her current practice is grounded in meticulous research and an understanding of the material. She completed a PhD entitled "Perspectives on place: a ceramic response", the work from which was exhibited at The People’s Museum Limerick. This approach requires a slowing down, close attention and living in the moment. Her response to place involves using wild clays alongside objects found in the landscape and utilises woven materials such as birch, beech and willow.
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Photo: ©Mandy Parslow
Birch Beech bowl
Photo: ©Mandy Parslow
Birch Fir form
Intertwined birch and fir branches create a narrow bowl form that is filled with locally sourced unfired clay. The clay is a rich brown colour and forms folds and undulations as it emerges from the organic form, leaving a narrow opening at the top.
Length 15 cm
Width 10 cm
Height 10 cm
Photo: ©Mandy Parslow
Gathering
Intertwined snowberry branches create a loose former that is filled with locally sourced unfired clay. The clay is a rich brown colour, with inclusions of fired local stones that give a rough texture. This rough clay material has been pushed through the organic former to create a vessel form where the two materials become one.
Length 15 cm
Width 15 cm
Height 20 cm
Photo: ©Mandy Parslow
TrackTrace
This vessel is formed from locally sourced ceramic material. It was fired to stoneware temperatures: it is a rich, dark terracotta colour, with flashes of ash where a basket – used to form the piece – has burnt off during the firing. The echo of the now gone basket is evident in the deep undulations and tracks left on the exterior of the form.
Length 18 cm
Width 18 cm
Height 20 cm
Photo: ©Mandy Parslow
Nest
A found nest is lined with a ceramic bowl, filling the internal space of the nest. The bowl is made of locally sourced and refined ceramic material, pinched to create a simple bowl form. The texture of the soft clay and the pinching fingers are visible in the fired form which is a dark terracotta colour.
Length 18 cm
Width 15 cm
Height 14 cm
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