Ceramic Review: Masterclass with Adam Buick

[Music] I'm quite singular in my approach to form I make this one form based on a Korean phone called a moon gel people asked me if it gets boring but in a way I think it's quite freeing you know you've got one constant so that means that I got the freedom to play with the surface and the ideas behind the work I've always quite liked geology and so I know a little bit about rocks and minerals and things and also growing up in a place you know the landscape from your childhood and you know what's where and so that's it's nice you know you're thinking oh well this could be nice and where can I find that and then you you can have your retreading all paths from childhood and finding old things that you noticed him years ago and think so that's find that nice true moon jar is made from porcelain and there's always pure white in the Korean tradition I use actually use a Grogg porcelain so moon gels are made with two halves which are then joined so each half is about a bag of clays at 12 and a half kilos so I wedged the clay and and a big bat on the wheel and I throw down though throw down the big lump of porcelain and then I beat it roughly into Center just by slapping it with my hands just to minimize the amount of work involved in centering that amount of clay I find the centering particularly with large work the it's almost quite interesting you you've got to be centered yourself and quite calm otherwise it can turn into quite a battle but if you're in the right space then it's pretty straightforward if you've done the beating well you're going down into the clay and opening out so with a big lump of clay you got to use quite a lot of both hands almost in pulling out and then compressing the base is very important then I'm pushing the clay back in both hands working up into a cone and then I kind of dig under at the base and I do this thing where I use my actually my left hand and I use the whole palm of my hand to pull up do initial pull maybe even two pools like that I just find getting that way to clay up it really helps to get it moving upward before I go for a proper pull with my knuckle which is the next thing and I keep the form very vertical right until quite near the end then I widen the shape out in a controlled way to exactly the shape that I want [Music] I don't think about the dimensions too much when I'm throwing the first half but once I've finished here I then measure it and then I move on to the next piece repeat the process and then as I'm finishing the form then on the second piece I'm measuring quite regularly to make sure that I get the previous measurement exactly and then when they're sort of leather hard I then bring the two halves out again and although I normally have an idea which it's going to be the top and bottom never entirely certain so I then make it sort of visual decision on which is going to be based on top then I put each half on the wheel head and I'm scoring cross hatchings I score one way and then I score the other and then adding a slip lift that half off but the other half on the wheel same again scoring and slip then I'm ready then to join one half on top the other so I don't when I'm throwing the halves I don't why them off because then I'm able to flip the flip one bowl over completely upside down and it's because it hasn't been wide it sticks to the bat so you could get so I so I flipped them but one ball on top the other and just place them down carefully on top of each other and they should line up perfectly and then yeah I give them a little tap like a drum just to you know when you do a join it's quite important to sort of agitate the join a bit to get it to really join then I tend to leave it for 20 minutes half an hour or so to let them slip and things join in a bit wire off the top board and then I work the join then with a little wooden tool like pressing it together kind of one way and then the other with a pin you cut the base out of the top Bowl basically to make a hole in there what's now at the top of the pot then you're working the join from the inside and from the outside and then dry I work the joint with a kidney and fingers on the inside and once I feel like the joins well and truly worked enough to want to hide it and want to make sure that it's voluntarily secured then I start on free throwing the rim so I add water and I rework the rim and I do work the joint a bit wet as well to really finish the form and then throwing probably the top third of the pot re throwing it into a into a nice rim for the in gel form in a few days time when it's much drier I will then flip it over into a chuck to turn the base that I actually use a car tire as a Chuck and then turning the foot ring really quite narrow because one of the most important aspects of a Moon jar is the ratio between rim diameter and foot ring diameter and the foot ring needs to be smaller than the rim I had really do enjoy playing with the glazes and the surfaces and the materials and being out in nature and finding different materials and adding them into the work and that's done not just for the aesthetic value but it's a connection to the land and to the landscape which inspires me you

Channel: Ceramic Review

Views: 92,111

Rating: 4.9492435 out of 5

Keywords: ceramic, pottery, throwing, moon jar, adam buick, ceramic review, ceramics, potter, how to, tutorial, clay, wheel

Id: V2q-gWzcDR0

Length: 6min 58sec (418 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 12 2020

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