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Featured Interview: Louisa Grey

Featured Interview: Louisa Grey

In anticipation of the London Design Fair 2023, we invited Louisa Grey, founder of House of Grey to share her thoughts with us.
Featured Exhibition: Sun and Moon

Featured Exhibition: Sun and Moon

Sun and Moon, curated by Luna Huang, is an exhibition foregrounding the confluences and divergence in cross-cultural artistic interactions.

Artist Interview: Ashraf Hanna

Artist Interview: Ashraf Hanna

"Understanding the material qualities unique to each medium can inform a creative dialogue that would enrich the artistic practice."
Kaleidoscope of Colours: Glasswares for the Summer

Kaleidoscope of Colours: Glasswares for the Summer

Glassware offers a diversity and range of colours, and its translucent quality adds a serendipitous character to the space, which interacts and changes with the light.
Seijaku / Stillness: The Gravity of Time

Seijaku / Stillness: The Gravity of Time

Objects bearing the weight of time take on a dignified presence, inviting viewers to appreciate its resilience and observe its strength against the test of time.
Materiality

Materiality

M A T T E R A N D T E C H N I Q U E Materiality is at the core of crafting – the emphasis on the compositional matter of a piece through skillful r...
Artist Interview: Jack Doherty

Artist Interview: Jack Doherty

Millie Cluzan at Maud & Mabel interviewed Jack Doherty in October 2022, in the lead up to his solo exhibition Vocation
Kireina: Beauty in Simplicity

Kireina: Beauty in Simplicity

The Japanese word kireina (綺麗な) can translate to ‘beautiful’, ‘neat’ and ‘clean’, a polysemy conflation reflecting a ponderance of beauty in simplicity. These aesthetic concepts are at the heart of wabi-sabi...
Detail of ceramics vessel in white with navy blue and red painterly marks

Poetic Evocations: Wintry Colours

Just as the dropping temperature and dark days can make us feel cold and sombre, and warm interiors and twinkling lights can make us feel warm and cosy, colours can elicit specific feelings and senses. 
A nozzle to an opening of a soda firing kiln

Soda Firing: Marked by Flame

Soda firing is a firing technique where a vapour glaze made of sodium oxide (soda) glazes the clay body of the pottery during the firing process.
Quotidian Companionship: Contemporary Ceramics in Living Spaces

Quotidian Companionship: Contemporary Ceramics in Living Spaces

Ceramics formulate our most intimate spaces and we make sense of our attachment to home through manoeuvring around and using these crafted objects...
Bernard Leach and British studio pottery: Foundations and Lineage

Bernard Leach and British studio pottery: Foundations and Lineage

Bernard Leach and British studio pottery: Foundations and Lineage The intricate ties between British studio pottery and Japanese ceramics can be t...