BARBARA GITTINGS CERAMICS
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About the artist

I'm a Brighton-based ceramicist, exhibiting across England. During my earlier career in the fashion industry as a designer and pattern cutter, I began to explore clay as an alternative medium to fabric. In fashion, the layering of textiles and the power of the cut merge to find new balances and forms, the biomorphic and geometric held in tension. My work in clay continues to explore this. I’m fascinated by the geometry in nature, especially as growth and random chaotic forces skew and distort the initial perfect symmetry, leading to biomorphic and irregular forms.  

My ceramics explore the multi-layered effects nature creates via the laying down of strata, weathering and erosion.

I endeavour to catch echoes of all this in my work whilst trying to embrace chance, the accidental and, as Henri Bergson said, the unforeseeable novelty.

Technique

I work with a grogged porcelain, using Nerikomi techniques. This involves adding oxides or stains to the clay to colour it and then joining, slicing and rejoining layers of colours to build up patterns through the clay. I then slab-build the pieces. After sanding and biscuit firing to 1046 degrees, the pieces are re-sanded and then further decorated, using various resists. They are then smoke-fired and polished.
Publications

 Ceramic Review  Issue303  May/June 2020 Masterclass
 New Ceramics/Neue-Keramik Issue 4/2021 Profile
 Cluster Crafts  Soil Surface Sky 2021
​Ceramics Monthly  ​Issue Feb 2022

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Stockists​
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Bircham Gallery, Holt, NR25 6BW

Robert Fogell Gallery,  ​Stamford, PE9 2LF

Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, SP3 6LW

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Previous Shows/Exhibitions​
  • Art in Clay Windsor  ​Royal Windsor Racecourse SL4 5JJ 2021
  • Celebrating Ceramics   Waterperry Gardens OX33 1LA 2019 & 2021
  •  Bircham Gallery  Joint Show Helen Terry, Barbara Gittings  Holt NR25 6BW 2021
  •  Oxford Ceramics Fair  Oxford OX2 7NZ 2021
  • Autumn Show  Silson Contemporary, Harrogate HG2 0DS 2019
  •  ​Art in Clay Hatfield  ​Hatfield House AL9 5NQ 2019
  • 'A Pot In The Hand'  Round House Gallery, Foston DE65 5DLp 2019
  • ​'Imbalance'  Artichoke Gallery  Ticehurst TN5 7AE 2019
  • Sussex Guild Contemporary Craft Shows at Horsham, Michelham Priory and Bexhill 2018
  • Art in Clay, Hatfield ​Aug 2018
  • Artists Open House at 9A Hove Place, Brighton, 2013 - 2019 aoh.org.uk miararts.com
  • Interior Space at Gallery57, Arundel, 2017 gallery57.co.uk
  • Chalk, Flint, Clay, Shore at Gallery57, Arundel, 2017 gallery57.co.uk
  • Sussex Guild shows at Michelham Priory & Midhurst, 2017 thesussexguild.co.uk
  • MADE Bloomsbury, 2016 
  • Emerging Potters Show at Bils & Rye Gallery, 2016
  • Innovations in Ceramic Art, Cambridge, 2016


Copyright Barbara Gittings © 2017
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