This semester was started off with a trip to show case in the RDS on Wednesday the 23rd of January 2012. This was a great opportunity for us not just in ceramic research, as we had just started working on our new brief but also as an insight into working lives of makers and designers which in turn was beneficial to our up and coming professional practice. It was amazing to see the vast areas of craft that are at hand. Even through ceramics alone the numerous aspects in which makers have taken to work with clay. Some of my favourites included, Sarah McKenna who works in wonderfull patterns which maintain a link with poetry and lyrics. Stephen Price who created sublime vibrant functional wears, and Ian Carty. Ians work was called ‘Horsehair Pottery’. ‘Horsehair pottery is fired using a special technique that creats fine lines by burning the hair from the mane of a horse and thick lines from the hair of the tail. The horse hair is applied by hand. As the hair is consumed by the fire it twists and twins. Each piece becoming an original never to be duplicated again.’
