YR 9

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YR 9

• Homework
• Slab Pots and Coil Pots

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• This is a research homework. Presentation is very
  important and here you have a choice it could be
  a two page presentation in your sketchbook a
  PowerPoint presentation an A3 display sheet
  check with your teacher first please.
• The research is based on a ceramics (claywork)
  theme.
• There are two main hand building techniques for
  making 3D ceramic forms (pots). These are the
  slab pot and the coil pot techniques.
• Since ancient times these techniques have been
  used to create large, imaginative and exciting
  vessels or pots.
• Until quite recently they have usually been
  functional but now they are made as decorative
  works of art.
• Many of the potters and artists who make these
  pots have become well known and their work is
  collected and displayed in galleries, much the
  same as paintings and sculpture.

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Task

• For this homework you need to research the work
  of either one potter or the pottery work of a
  culture, eg the work of Grayson Perry or Nigerian
  pottery
• Find out between ten and fifteen interesting
  facts about the work of your chosen
  potter/culture. eg what techniques are used, what
  scale are the pots, where are/were they made, are
  they glazed, do they have patterns on them, what
  techniques were used to create the pattern?
• Have the pots been made for a particular reason,
  are they just decorative or do they have a
  message, is the artist trying to say something?
• When you have found out all this information plus
  more if possible put it all together in an
  interesting way along with some illustrations
  remember presentation is important.
• Then you must add your own comments and opinions
  about the work. What do you think of it? Analyse
  and evaluate it etc.

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Coil Pots
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Nigerian stoneware coil pot decorated with a
traditional Nigerian incised pattern
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Building a coil pot
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Aaron Powers. Coil pot and sculpted hands.
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Derrick Wilshaw. Large slab and coil stoneware
pot 1967
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Grayson Perry Everything Else in the Room is
Rubbish.Coil built with black slip, applied and
overglaze decoration.
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Grayson Perry Two Children Born on the Same
Day.Earthenware coil pot, sgraffito, applied
decoration, photographic transfers, copper oxide.
1996
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Unglazed earthenware jar decorated with darker
slip. Coil pot, Egyptian, about 3300 BC. Height
40.5cm
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Unglazed earthenware jar decorated with a pattern
of green and brown slip. Coil pot . North west
China. About 2000 1500 BC. Height 34cm
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Unglazed earthenware jar. Part thrown, part coil
pot. Applied decoration. About 1450-1400 BC.
Knossos, Crete. Height 14.1cm
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Slab Pots
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Fiona Hannon. Slab built lamp. 2007
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Roberta Griffith. Nikko Traverse. Slab
built.9x18x18 cm 1998.
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Roberta Griffiths. Nikko Transfer. Slab built.
8x35x38 cm
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Ken Eastman. Still Life With Seven Forms. Slab
built and painted.. 19 x 23 48 cm. 1997
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Ken Eastman. Cut Outs. Slab built and painted.
1998.
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Stoneware slab pots. 20th century
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David Faithful. Lidded Pot. Slab buit. 1970s
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Shoji Hamada. Vase Japan 1938
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Toini Muona. Chamotte Vase Finland 20th
century
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Steve Irvine. Ceramic Pinhole Camera. 2007
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Kazuo Yaqi. Walking Japan
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Building a slab pot
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Slab pots.
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Lisa Pritchard
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Chris Theiss. On the Bridge. Slab and coil
work with sgraffito. 1989