Spotted | The Portland Vase, ‘Master of Gloop’ Brian Rochefort, a Tile Revamp + more!

Welcome back to Spotted, our weekly top-favs list from the world of contemporary ceramic art and contemporary ceramics. This week we dive in with an interview with one of our favorite ceramists Brian Rochefort.

Brian Rochefort: In the Studio

We found this awesome interview from our friends over at sixtyhotels.com with LA-based master of gloop Brian Rochefort. We loved this bit on how he achieves his dribble-y masterpieces.

Your ceramics take on such unfamiliar shapes and textures. How do you develop the processes seen in your work?

I develop thick glaze by carefully applying glaze, layer by layer, in a very similar way a painter applies paint to a canvas, except in between each layer of glaze, I fire the piece in a kiln.  Sometimes I smash the tops off of pieces I do not like and rework the surface by dipping it in wet clay. Because of the technique, every work can be considered an ongoing piece. I can always glaze over an unfavorable surface, so I exploit this.

Check out the rest of the interview here. And you can check out some of our previous musings on Rochefort here.

Seven Sisters Station Installation

We’ve Spotted Turner Prize-winning Assemble Studio and artist Matthew Raw’s latest installation at the Seven Sisters Underground station in London. Inspired by the myriad tile designs in the London Underground, the designers have covered the station in thousands of colorful, handmade tiles, Dezeen writes.

Named Clay Station, the refurbishment commissioned by Art on the Underground focused on a retail unit at the entrance of Seven Sisters that had lain empty for more than a decade.

Eat + Buy Dishes

We’ve Spotted this restaurant where you can literally buy the dishes you eat from. The New York Times reports La Mercerie, the cafe, bakery and restaurant in the furniture and design store Roman and Williams Guild in Soho, diners can order something to go: the plates, the napkins, the tableware, the candlesticks and even the tables.

The Portland Vase

We Spotted ceramics writer and guest curator Rob Hunter had the opportunity to photograph the 18th century example of the Portland Vase by Neale & Co., which he calls “overshadowed in ceramic history by the well known Wedgewood copy.”

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