Ceramic Week

As part of ‘Ceramic Week’, which took place before the Autumn half term break, and an introduction to clay, Lower Sixth artists visited Petersfield Museum and Gallery to view the work of Nicholas Lees.

After exploring the techniques of slab and coil building in stoneware in class, it was fascinating to view Lees’ abstract vessels made from porcelain. and try to understand and identify how each piece was made.

Lees’ sculptural work was displayed alongside his rarely seen works on paper which explored themes of surface, presence and absence, all of which were fascinating to our students who started the term immersing themselves in experimental drawing.

This was a great opportunity to see the direct relationship between initial drawings to a finished ceramic piece and for our students to identify visual and conceptual connections between the two.