Adybarker- Modern Ceramic Artist
"To find the essence of a subject, place, person or object."
My work tells a story about the location and the beings that inhabit and shape it. I create large scale vessels and sculpture through throwing and illustration. Combining the two disciplines, using coloured slips and sgraffito to create desirable earthenware artifacts.
It is the mission of my practice, through hand making and decoration, to provide artefacts that help people become more spiritually and emotionally enlightened to the world around them. I hope to do this by providing products and services that enhance their environment and subsequently improve their lives. I hope that by adopting this philosophy I will foster worthy connections with clients, forge meaningful social associations, leading to a more auspicious future client and artist relationship
A photograph is just a representation of a millisecond in time, never a full depiction of subject, that becomes apparent through prolonged study.
A canvas or sheet of paper is flat allowing only 2D representation of a subject whereas a vessel provides a 3D view of the topic, hiding some area while pushing forward others. Urging the observer to move around the artifact changing viewpoint to gain the whole picture. As in life, we are only really able to see glimpses of the subject at any one time… relying mostly on memories of previous viewpoints to piece together our individual account of the subject.
My work is created through process. Visualizing, sketching and making. Thereby allowing myself to focus through physical and mental absorption in large bodies of clay that are slowly thrown on the wheel.
It is a process similar to my martial arts training, pushing one’s physical capabilities through mental application and process repetition, striving to attain the perfect form. Knowing that the better one becomes - the better one can be. Every form performed with the greatest endeavor, will provide greater possibilities.
I have always drawn and sketched since early child hood. It has been a way of tapping into hidden logic… a method of imposing order on an existence, otherwise out of juvenile control. Even before linguistic skills are developed; drawing and making become a pre-verbal mode of communication.
For me, drawing and making examines the potential knowledge of the subject; engaging it with an intense connection, involving meditative study, gleaning new perceptions at every representation.
Sketching repeatedly from life and photographic images. I try to create perception of the subject that cuts through the etymological haze and offers a direct connection to the essence of the experience.
Omitting the unnecessary whilst identifying the significant, enables the viewer to engage with the experience on a higher level of awareness.
I apply this approach to my vessels, not just in the throwing but also the decoration.
Education
2016 - 2019
BA Ceramics at Cardiff Met.
2015 - 2016
Art foundation at Swindon college
Exhibitions
Group
2018
Ken Stradling Exhibition Bristol UK
2019
G-Bowl , Llantarnam grange , Cardiff
Contact Me
+44-7521-924-072