Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / SEPTEMBER 2022<br />
Bee Hayes<br />
UK<br />
asthecrowsfly.co.uk<br />
About<br />
Having qualified in both social anthropology and fashion<br />
design, I am currently a ceramicist working with porcelain, a<br />
material I find really satisfying and versatile. In my ceramics<br />
practice I throw or slip cast, and then polish, glaze or<br />
illustrate my vessels. I find I am constantly discovering new<br />
ideas and ways of working, and I am dedicated to design and<br />
functionality: I feel strongly that the things in our lives, that<br />
we use, should enhance the everyday and I want my work to<br />
perform that as a function as much as being usable vessels.<br />
I am also an illustrator and, although I mainly use that as a<br />
tool to push forward my ceramics and design work, I have<br />
recently been studying printmaking. A year of exploring<br />
different techniques and ways to make marks and create<br />
layered and unique new artworks with no end point of<br />
functionality has made me want to explore this further. I feel<br />
quite liberated from my everyday ceramics practice in that<br />
my prints have no ‘reason’. This is a new way of working and<br />
thinking for me, but the spontaneity of ideas comes from the<br />
same place. The dialogue between colour, the natural world<br />
and distinctive elements of design heritage both from the<br />
west and the global south is what gives me my impetus to<br />
keep on interrogating and creating.<br />
Screenprint Metaphors<br />
During my time at <strong>Arteles</strong> I explored the medium of<br />
screenprint for creating abstract symbolist compositions.<br />
The research was designed to round off a year of exploring<br />
print as a new medium to expand my practice in ceramics<br />
and bring textiles/visual art into my remit. A year of learning,<br />
ending with a month of completely open exploration and<br />
spontaneity. I loved living a few steps away from a beautiful<br />
light studio space, always ready for me to work and take<br />
forward ideas that struck me whilst walking or running or<br />
sitting with the natural landscape surrounding us. Such a<br />
valuable time; the ideas and colour work here will inform a<br />
new direction in my practice.