LOOP IS THRILLED to be stocking the gorgeous ceramics of Annette Bugansky.
Annette trained and worked in fashion and costume design before becoming a ceramicist. She worked as a cutter for Jean Muir as well as the BBC costume department. Annette graduated in 2003 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in Ceramic Design.
It's clear from her work that Annette is greatly inspired by her experience in the fashion and costume industries and this has influenced her approach to ceramics.
She researches techniques used in other disciplines and develops them for use in ceramics. Inspiration is drawn from a number of different sources including textile structure, patterns in natures, contemporary interiors and city architecture. |
Texture forms part of the pattern and colour and emotion of the pieces. Her work is highly tactile and sensual.
Her latest range of porcelain knitted texture vessels combines traditional and experimental knitting patterns to create surface pattern.
For each individual piece Annette knits a form to cover the vessel before casting it in porcelain. Porcelain has the ability to reproduce every detail and its translucent quality gives added depth. The porcelain is vitrified at high temperatures to produce a matt watertight surface. |
