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I love collecting things discarded, lost, forgotten, damaged or just not wanted any more. My favourite places are rivers and beaches, but also find great things at recycling centres and charity shops. I’m lucky to live near the River Tees, Co Durham and often walk the banks picking up broken glass, pottery anything that can be cleaned and re-created into something new. Bits and bobs of lives all waiting to find new homes.
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Shards Hand crafted Jewellery and framed artworks using pre loved and discarded ceramics. Ceramic material will show signs of wear. Entire process is a creative experience from discovery to final picture, nothing planned or preconceived. All materials personally collected from river banks, charity shops, roadside, woods, recycle centres, beaches, wherever dropped, dumped or donated ceramics are found, cleaned and shaped into new stories. Each titled piece comes with bio of where the ceramic came from, known history, original information and when the artwork was created. Some ceramics collected are used as found, while others are cut randomly which will shape the final picture. Every piece is individual, nothing replicated, however, due to repetitive patterns in ceramics there will be some similarity but only through the ceramic material not in the final piece.
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Created from ceramic plate
discovered October 2019
Re-Created June 2020
‘Waiting’ is created from a large broken wall plate.
In October 2019 I bought a box of broken ceramics from a recycling centre in Barnard Castle, Co Durham. It was filled with smashed plates, underneath all the rubble was a large brown thick plate and two similar style green patterned wall plates.
I chose the brown plate to experiment with, when I started clipping and cutting I noticed the shards forming into beautiful elongated shapes. I used a felt board to allow the pieces to fall onto it forming natural patterns.
The pieces fell in a group of 10 and I noticed that 5 had fallen in a row and the other 5 were laid splaying outwards. The whole process is creative and I never know how things will turn out. I gathered the 5 bits in a row and realised they looked amazing turned, as if stacked and I put the splayed pieces standing ontop. For me the shapes represent figures standing on balancing rocks – ‘waiting’.
A large broken brown plate destined to be thrown away has now started a new life as ‘Waiting’ by Shards.
Picture frame is Recycled, distressed style.
Measures 18cm x 18cm x 3.5cm
F5 S5
Designed by Stephanie
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