Inside the exhibition
A really good exhibition with a variety of contemporary work. It has been interesting to see another nations practitioners dealing with...
João Carqueijeiro in the museum garden
I was really taken by This work as I had considered using layered 'platelets' in order to reference stratification during ASU2 but was...
Ceramic exhibition in the City Museum
So, just time to look around the City Museum (where we are teaching the workshop) before we need to start. The sun is baking on the...
Viewing work at the former captaincy of the port of Aviero
Another location for ceramics at the Biennale. A building spanning the river. Here again I saw interesting reflections of light , along...
Visit to Museu de Arte Nova, Aveiro
So we visited another ceramic exhibition in the Museum of art nouveau in Aveiro. one thing that stood out was the multitude of surface...
Found effigies
One of the things that strikes me here is the amount of religious and 'lifelike ' effigies but it does raise the question of how we...
Surprise meeting with the City Mayor at the Cultural Congress Centre
So we went to see the other location Marions' work was installed, at the cultural congress center. We were then told the City Mayor would...
Tesserae pavements
All over Aveiro the pavements are tesserae patterns or symbols - just something I thought was interesting.
Workshop Day 1
After looking round the venue yesterday and getting organised with clay and tools, we began the workshops today. As the featured artist,...
Meeting with the Vista Allegra Museum and Gallery Manager to view Marions work on display!
First stop today, a return visit to Vista Allegra where Marions Residency took place and I assisted. A huge and historic ceramics factory...