Lyde Green Pottery
Bristol
I have been commissioned to develop a temporary public art project funded through a new housing development in Lyde Green, East Bristol. The development site was formerly owned by Ibstock Brick who still own nearby Brandy Bottom Colliery, now a scheduled monument in the care of Avon Industrial Buildings Trust but once a busy steam-powered colliery. Brick making was a way of using clay extracted during mining, and the poorest quality coal that was not suitable for other uses. The project will use wild clay dug from the development site in combination with Ibstock’s Brick Clay (also locally quarried) to create an editioned artwork to be gifted to residents moving into new homes on the development. The artist is holding free pottery workshops at Brandy Bottom Colliery as part of Heritage Open Days in September 2021, where local residents will be invited to make Roman style pots using wild clay dug up locally by the artist. These pots, and the artist’s edition, will be fired in a kiln built by the artist at the colliery.
Project managed by Suzanne Heath for more info see suzanneheath.co.uk
NEW WORKS
Pool, Stoneware in oxidation, limpet shell, egg shell, woodash, copper and iron, 2021, 16cm x 6cm
Keeper, stoneware in oxidation, tenmoku glaze, 2021, 16cm x 6cm
Crater Dish, stoneware in oxidation, limpet shell, egg shell, woodash, copper and iron, 2021, 16cm x 6cm
Fish, local clay in oxidation, limpet shell, egg shell, woodash, copper and iron, 2021, 14cm x 5cm
Swamp Bowl, stoneware in oxidation, woodash and Tenmoku, 2021, 12cm x 6cm
Waiting for a Greggs at Leigh Delamere Servies, M4, stoneware in oxidation, woodash glaze, 2021, 16cm x 6cm
Flower Jar, stoneware in oxidation, Tenmoku and Chun glazes, 2021, 20cm x 6cm
Crater, stoneware in oxidation, limpet shell, egg shell, woodash, copper and iron, 2021, 25cm x 6cm
Janus Jar, glazed stoneware, 2021, 20cm x 20cm
Handled Pot, Bristol River Clay in oxidation, Tenmoku and Chun glazes, 2021, 6cm x 15cm
Handled Pot, Bristol River Clay in oxidation, Copper ash glaze, 2021, 6cm x 15cm