Alice Rose Mirage Vase
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contact: alice@alicerose.co.nz
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I have practiced life drawing since age 13 and later worked as a life model over 24 years. This has given me an intimate knowledge in drawing the human form. 


When I began studying ceramics I learnt that many pottery terms are named after parts of the human body as in lip, shoulder, neck, belly, foot. This led me to represent the human form as a vessel in a series called 'vase becoming nude'. I also sculpt figures in slab and coil.


​There is a timing to working with clay measured by the drying rate that seems compatible with the pace of human hands. Sculpting begins with wedging, kneading and pressing out a form from the damp clay, working towards a gradual refinement, possible only as the clay dries. Drawing and carving into clay is like working with soft stone, interchanging contours and lines of light and dark to represent form.




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