Year 9

Natural Forms Sculpture

Project
Artists to Inspire
 Artists
http://collection.britishcouncil.org
 Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present
Peter Randall-Page is an extraordinary British sculptor and visual artist whose connection to
nature began in the Sussex countryside. For Randall-Page, organic forms are places to begin,
shapes that push the artist to explore his own response to them.

Three Fruit , Kilkenny limestone, 1986

Peter Randall-Page 1954 - Present

Seed
Alice R Ballard 1945 - Present http://aliceballard.com/index.html

Alice R Ballard works as a ceramicist

based in Greenville, South Carolina.

‘My art is a reflection of my relationship

with natural forms. It is often the
metamorphosis of Nature's forms, as
they change from season to season, that
attracts me to that universal world in
which differing life forms share similar
qualities.’

‘Pods’
 Alice R Ballard

Vessels
 Alice R Ballard

Platters
 Alice R Ballard

Pinch Pots
 Lucy Unwin
Lucy Unwin was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and grew up and was educatued in East
Anglia. She studied Fine Art Sculpture at Winchester School of Art graduating in 2006 with a
BA in Fine Art Sculpture. Since graduation she has continued to develop her work in both
metal and stone, working towards exhibitions as well as working to commission. She is now
working in a studio in the inspirational Cotswolds countryside.

Esqueleto IIOriginalAlabaster36cm x 25cm x SnettishamOriginalCararra Marble28cm x

25cm 55cm x 28cm
 Anne Goldman Anne Goldman has been involved
in ceramics for over twenty years.
"Nature is so perfect. It's just all there -- the Her work is represented
formations, the caves, bones & stones. What I extensively in galleries, museums
attempt to express is my love and reverence and private collections throughout
for the beauty of this earth. Clay is my the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and has
language." -- Anne been featured in numerous one-
woman shows.

Coastal Rock Vase

"While hiking in Havasu Canyon,
an offshoot of the Grand
Canyon, it began to rain heavily.
Water poured over the walls of
the canyon, very beautiful to
see. This gave me the idea for
this particular texture."
 Carol Alleman

Carol’s artistic inclination

combines her ability to
transform emotion into word
and object through her own
curiosity, love of nature and
life experience. The common
thread, both in the approach
and work itself, directs her
mystical life journey. She
exhibits across North America
while realizing an international
collector base. Her work is
greatly appreciated by a highly
diverse base of collectors:
especially those with a love of
Tiffany, Art Nouveau, Arts and
Crafts, Traditional, Asian and
even Contemporary design.
Carol Alleman, Transitions II, Cast Bronze
Edition of 12, 42" x 25"
Carol Alleman AZ TrilliumCast Bronze, edition
of 1116 x 5.5
 Charlotte Hupfield

I create handmade individual one-off pieces that are

predominately made in stoneware, which are influenced by the
decorative and colourful elements of the landscape. I am
currently based in Northamptonshire and my work ranges from
collections of vases, bowls, sculptural vessels, clocks, coasters,
wall plaques and magnets. My main construction method is hand
building.  Decorative details include adding tiny flecks of glass or
chunks of leather-hard clay into the surface when the clay is soft,
as well as painting decorative coloured slips onto my own
handmade textured printing blocks, which I then roll onto sheets
of clay before using to construct forms.
Dale Chihuly
Chihuly was born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington. He
was introduced to glass while studying interior design
at the University of Washington. After graduating in
1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the
country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued
his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design
(RISD), where he later established the glass program
and taught for more than a decade.

Chihuly has created more than a dozen well-known

series of works, among them Cylinders and Baskets in
the 1970s; Seaforms, Macchia, Venetians, and
Persians in the 1980s; Niijima Floats and Chandeliers
in the 1990s; and Fiori in the 2000s.

His website … http://www.chihuly.com/home.aspx

Dale Chihuly
 “I make exquisite cups and other objects for a
Ikuko Iwamoto bizarre tea ceremony. They suggest the everyday,
the ordinary, but are in fact extra-ordinary. They
are the vehicle to make visible an invisible,
Ikuko is especially curious about
microscopic world. A world of intricacy and detail,
invisible things such as sounds,
of mathematical pattern and organic chaos, of
music and the microscopic world
beauty and repulsion.”
– cells, genes and organic forms.
Her functional pieces are still
influenced by her ceramic
sculpture forms and this is what
customers find most appealing –
the handmade quality of her
work, where every little detail is
individually crafted. This
meticuolous level of detail also
seems curiously appropriate for
a subject matter that includes
the tiniest of sea creatures and
the minutest of micro-
organisms. Ikuko expalins, “I like
to make invisible things visible”.
Ikuko Iwamoto

ensyme wall sculptures (2008)

Ikuko Iwamoto

Silver sea urchin and white sea urchin

containers (2006)
Ikuko Iwamoto

small spiky beakers (2008)

 Clare Twomey
The themes of Clare's work are influenced by observations of human interaction and political
behaviour. The bodies of work can have varying themes. Clare continues to develop work,
which pursues her interest in space, architectural interventions and the gallery as destination.

Installation at V&A comprising 4000 birds

made from Wedgwood Jasper Blue clay which
flooded the Cast Courts over a temporary
period and could be taken away by audiences.
Clare Twomey's Specimen, 2009
 Kate Malone 1959 - Present
Kate Malone was born in London; she studied at Bristol
Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. After graduating
she set up a studio in London and has recently acquired a
studio in the country. Malone is concerned with organic
forms and her work is strongly sculptural. Her pots take
on the forms of vessels and although her works look as
though they should function, that is not their prime
motivation for Malone sees herself as a 'maker of
decorative objects'. Malone's shapes - gourds, pumpkins,
pineapples and the like - are drawn from nature and
celebrate fecundity. She works with T material clay which
is more often associated with industrial ceramics; this
material is white and renders her glazes bright. She has a
number of basic forms which begin as a coiled piece and
are then, as she describes, "dressed, like people wearing
different coats" with additions of press moulds and
modelling on the surface. Malone uses a bright and
vibrant palette that gives her works a strong visual
impact. The interior glazes are applied with a slip trailer
and swilled around, and the exterior painted with big
brushes.
MOTHER PINEAPPLE EPERGNE 1997
Kate MaloneGreen Sprucey Nut Lidded Box,
2006 Crystalline glazed stoneware
Kate Malone, Pumpkin
 Hitomi Hosono
Hitomi wanted to remind people of the origins of tea and the cultural connections with
the Far East that have been created over 400 years of tea-drinking in Europe. These links
are now often forgotten or taken for granted.Hitomi’s unique sprig technique was
developed while she studied collections at the Wedgwood factory in Etruria, Stoke-on-
Trent in 2009 just before the company folded. Ironically, the collapse of the British
ceramics industry is largely due to the cheaper costs of manufacturing in China.Image
from Teatopia, Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery 1 July – 24 October 2010

To the right Hosono

installing her new
commission for
Teatopia
Hitomi Hosono, Leaves Bowl
 Nuala O'Donovan

Pinecone Series Porcelain, high-

fired and unglazed. Date 2007,
2008, 2009.This work in this series
is based on a pattern found in a
pinecone. It uses the
characteristics of fractal forms in
nature by multiplying the pattern
and form within the overall
finished piece.
Andy Goldsworthy (1956 − )

SWEET CHESTNUT LEAF HORN1987

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - present

Kusama is a Japanese American

artist who works in a wide variety
of media and techniques – prints,
sculptures and installations.
Her starting point is often natural
form.
Steve Royston-Brown

These works are a combination of

two-dimensional printmaking and
the physical form.

‘Taxonomy - After Haeckel I & II’

These pieces look similar to

corals and shells.

‘Taxonomy - After Haeckel III’