Shirley's Ceramics Art & Design

Ceramics clocks

shirleybhatnagar — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:02:30 +0000

I started making ceramics clocks way back in 1999 when they were still a very novel item. In my earlier clocks I did away with numbers and instead started using partitions and curved surfaces more intutive to the ceramic process. The choice of different glazes a riot of colors also was meant to distinguish between the 12 parts.

This particular piece was fabulous, the glazes came beautifully subdued in the wood kiln.

Slipcast Stoneware

shirleybhatnagar — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:31:51 +0000

Slip cast offers endless possibilities in clay.Unfortunately my explorations and objects in clay ened with years in NID.I hope to make more such work, my re-entry into functional ceramic ware.

Both the sets featured here, the lotion bottles and the teaset were first created in plaster of paris.I had carved each piece and then took molds of these.The teapot was a six piece mold , my most complicated slipcast to date.

The teaset is a six piece set : teapot, milkpot, snack bowl cup and sugar pot.

Altered Factory Plates

shirleybhatnagar — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:08:47 +0000

Just before my first solo show with the Birla Gallery In Mumbai , in 2002, I was ofcourse in a frenzy and has gone nuts in generating work never seen before, and decided to tap into Palam pottery, ( now there is no Palam pottery because the new airport has taken over the land from them) So incredibly sad for someone like me.

I bought ready fired plates and added my own clay additions.These were an instant hit and sold out.I plan to revisit this idea and create more works using factory stuff as the base.

and here is the last one, it had a poem inscribed in clay on it, stuck with glaze.