I’m going to drum fire two ceramic figures today - it will be a first! I am going to sagger each figure in foil to protect them and to see how the organic materials I am adding might colour the figures. Process I wrapped two lengths of ceramic insulating fabric around the steel drum just …
Ceramic & textile sculptures
Finally ready for the fire. To create these figures I started with a twisted wire skeleton and covered it with ribbon cut from a medium weight wool/acrylic sweater. I then coated the wool fabric liberally with paper clay slip. Once this layer had dried I applied ribbons of wool fabrics soaked in the clay slip - …
