The elephant is now in the Collection of Charles Saatchi

A part of an interview with my friend Douglas White (I helped out building this sculpture). The interview is shown on the website of Saatchi Gallery. I'm the ceramicist friend and I must admit it's not unlike me - to feel both terrified and excited at the same time:

DD: What other up and coming projects are you working on?
Douglas White: This project has been utterly immersing. It’s always the same with a new material and new body of work. For the past four months I feel like I have lived and breathed clay and dead elephants and it’s difficult to imagine anything else.
And I haven’t tried firing any of these clay pieces which sounds like an interesting challenge on this scale They would need to be pit-fired which involves digging huge trenches for the works and constructing kiln-like structures around them which are destroyed during process. Then you dig the works out. I mentioned it to my ceramicist friend, I think I saw a look of terror and excitement cross her face, that’s always a good starting point.

The Article from Saatchi Gallery

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Source:dazeddigital.com

Secret Santa

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

I know these aren't the first party pictures I've shown here. Just to make sure - we do work very hard in between going out! ;-) So a few days before the 1st term ended, we had yet another brilliant party: the Christmas party. Everyone had brought a dish from their native country or region and as you see Secret Santa was there too.

Our amazing technical staff at our department (Ceramic and Glass, Royal College of Art, London) made sure that Secret Santa was invited to the Christmas party. It's impossible not to feel at home!

Santa did also have a present for me.



We spend the afternoon decorating the plaster workshop, so it was ready for the festive celebration.

If you are at an art college make sure always to check out the bins.

In them,  we did find some paper waste who made the much 

adorable snow ball ornaments. 

The very first step in the transformation to winter wonderland

Enjoying the fruits of our work. The moustaches was the feature of the night. My moustache is in my forehead - it wouldn't stick while eating :-)