Yunomi Calligraphy No 6

Artisan tea pottery by Peter Fulop

 


Stone ware cup "Yunomi" (japanese term for cups that are higher than wider)
height 7.5 cm, diameter 6 cm
Hand thrown and altered, grogged stone ware with iron oxide over glazed brush work, fired at 1260°C.

 

For the author‘s introduction, see "Story".

Peter Fulop studied traditional ceramics in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary (1985-87). He moved to his studio in the Northwest of Ireland in 2001. His work is part of many public collections including, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Inax Gallery and IWCAT Collection, Japan, the Office of Public Works and the National Museum of Ireland, Freeborn & Peter’s LLP, Chicago. Peter has received several awards, residencies and bursaries in support of his work from the Arts Council of Ireland, local County Councils and Culture Ireland. He has exhibited extensively and most recently in Jingdezhen C2 Gallery, and the Ningbo Art Museum China (2009).Peter will be representing Ireland at the Fule International Ceramic Art Museum (FLICAM),Fuping, China as part of the invited Irish delegates.

Peter about his work:
My latest body of work is a culmination of my experiences and time spent with traditional artists in China and Japan and studies of the martial arts and calligraphic painting. Through my working processes I explore the transference of motion in space onto a two or three dimensional surface. Historically there is a strong link between the use of the sword and the brush. The focus of movement is on the action itself. The artist begins with the stroke and theoretically empties his mind through the continuous flow of motion. These motion(s) or emotion(s), are recorded as marks upon the clay surface using a micron layer of glaze providing a holographic effect to brushstrokes.
Recently, my work has transitioned from functional object making to reflective containers. The container in the human consciousness is a very primal and universal symbol. In the early times the first “containers” were created for ceremonial purposes to represent the human body. Today we mainly use vases and containers for functional purposes in our every day life. In my new work I aspire to connect and reawaken the consciousness to those primal feelings towards the objects and object making.