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Artist : Sandy Lockwood
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Media : Wood fired ceramic
connection between this artwork and my practice:
sandy says “My way of making and firing allows for each piece to tell the story of its becoming ” (Sandy lockwood)
Lockwood is the artist that is conscious about her surroundings, in her speech, during ceramic triennial, she talked about how she pays attention to texture, objects in everyday life and how she cares about materiality of the objects.
It is interesting to see a ceramist who cares about materiality of ceramics instead of ceramic as a functional or representational object.
It is important to mention she has a strong relationship with making process and material she uses. She collects specific type of dust or stone and mixes and makes her own materials. In her work it’s so clear that material qualities and making process steps play an important role.
In Her speech she mentioned the term “Meshwork” from Tim Ingold’s books.
Ingold says: ” I have borrowed the term ‘meshwork’ from the philosophy of Henri Lefebvre.” (Bringing Things to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials- Page 12)
Meshwork as something that we all weave in our work from our life experience. Ingold says: “When I speak of the entanglement of things I mean this literally and precisely: not a network of connections but a meshwork of interwoven lines of growth and movement” (Bringing Things to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials- Page 4)
I think what makes an artwork unique and art is when artist finds his or her own meshwork that is woven to the work. And I don’t think meshwork can be a meaning or describing or categorising the artwork.