Alexa Chung Learns The True Beauty of Pottery | Forces For Change

yo hey Alexa where you off to today I'm on my way to interview amazing ceramicist Freya Bramble Carter she has a studio in London and I'm going to visit that and check out her wees and figure out how to make my own beautiful Ceramics I can't wait to hear all about it and please bring me something back for the house I will for sure bring you some kind of creation [Music] yes so Freya this is your beautiful studio and you share it with your dad did you learn your craft from your dad or were you inspired by his work probably all of the above I just found the medium of clay very easy to use as I grew up looking at them in the living room little did I know it was probably a tool that I used to navigate my communication through when I was a kid in what ways would you say that your work is similar and and how does it differ my finished work is human elements in it like women's faces bits of bodies and phas is a bit more more fluid yeah how long have you been here for 35 years it's like a family yeah can you tell me how you were able to sort of foster a community of artists ever since I came down from Scotland I went to glasow school of art I taught in kangon Chelsea college and then at time came I got my own studio and then from that it just grew and grew and grew and it is that amazing thing of it being everyone working sort of in isolation together and that even if they're not directly having a dialogue about what they're doing there's something about the energy of the space that's like creating a flow that's what's really special about sharing Studio you don't even have to talk there just like magnetic hum in the space I've had about three people that have gotten married and have babies i' have a lot of pregnant women get me to that clay all righty boom Oh get it in the middle oh my God yeah try again do it yes and push push push push get it really stuck on put your foot on the pedal that's it we're going to seal it on with your right hand to get it really stuck on and then we can add lots of water come out and help lean into it with all your body weight here and then with this hand you're going to turn it to the side that's it push down with your body right there lock onto your thumb thumbs in the middle and make a hole water and then pull out keep your hands pushing back that's enough good good good good good good good good mind there get a bit more height good well done do this let's and fold this down yeah good we're going to put this here lock this elbow into your side a bit that's it I know very less awkward all right yeah excellent that's that good she's wobbly uh-oh stop the wheel and wobble it oh gorgeous there you go [Music] petals this one I think is very very beautiful but I don't want to inflict this on Edward so I think we should should keep going see where we get to and then pick the best one we'll keep practicing you could do this as an exercise class exactly yeah oh 100% okay it's decoration time so what's your process from design to Creation I kind of work backwards and I have the final piece in Vision right at the beginning along the way you kind of pick up new bits of inspiration so your starting point kind of ends up a completely different story and that's part of the joy really you know you always think you can do more and better and you never want to Full Stop anything it's just like always exploring what do you enjoy most about Ceramics and what do you think this practice has provided you with I think a lot of the lessons that clay as material teaches you is very parallel to sort of growing up and growing awareness into this world such as with how you even treat and touch the clay with kindness you kind of start living your life a bit that you do things a bit slower and you think about every NS of your day down how you're breathing and talking and looking at people and all of that all of that comes into play meditative and I think it's definitely kind of more walked my personality I think I need a bit more of that what does this do can I borrow it yeah you can borrow it that's really nice for scratching this texture I'm just going in oh yeah Wolverine could never so I have written horses for change you know how you host classes at the studio yeah what do you think is the best thing about teaching others um it's a two-way street really I think I started because I wanted to share this craft because what it gave me I just wanted to show other people yeah um and then you know during that whole process I was learning just very basic human skills about talking to people and stuff like that and trying to communicate like what you do with your hands the touch the feeling cuz a lot of words aren't involved but you still have to use them to talk to these brand new people mhm it's just well viby it's just viby I think I have finished Edward's beautiful v e e hot a [Music] cely that's so sweet he can't not like it very feel like he's very polite so be like thank you love it Freya thank you so much for teaching me today and also it's been so lovely to hear about all the other people you teach your community and it's been a real pleasure thank you you're so welcome thanks for coming now I'm going to go and shock Edward with this [Music] ah dear Edward I hope you enjoy this fores would change master Be Love Alexa thank you I love it

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Length: 6min 55sec (415 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 15 2023