Olivia walker
Olivia Walker is an English ceramist based in Devon in the UK.
She took a Masters in Contemporary Crafts, specialising in Ceramics working as an apprentice to potter Julian Stair alongside this MA.
Participating in many exhibitions such as Collect 2019 at the Saatchi Gallery, SOFA Chicago or Melbourne Design Week, Olivia Walker is interested in working with clay in both a traditional and contemporary way.
« I always start with the potters wheel and value working with this traditional tool and the precision you can achieve with this. I go on to deconstruct these forms and build a rough and intuitive surface over this original form. Building this surface is very time consuming and labour intensive, and it’s this time spent with the object that I most enjoy. » O.W.
"My collapsed porcelain bowls are thrown on the wheel before being deconstructed and built upon with hundreds of individually made ceramic shards. I am interested in the contrast between surfaces - the smooth bowl form made in a mechanical way, and the organic, flowing and life-like surface built up on sections of the original form." O.W
WORKS
COLLAPSED PORCELAIN BOWL
Unique piece
2021
Porcelain
Dimensions: Width 15 cm x Height 18 cm
About Collapsed Porcelain Bowl
"My collapsed porcelain bowls are thrown on the wheel before being deconstructed and built upon with hundreds of individually made ceramic shards. I am interested in the contrast between surfaces - the smooth bowl form made in a mechanical way, and the organic, flowing and life-like surface built up on sections of the original form."
Olivia Walker
SMALL BLACK PORCELAIN NEST
Unique piece
2021
Porcelain
Dimensions: Width 13 cm x Height 8 cm
About Small Black Porcelain Nest
"My porcelain nests are explorations of internal versus external spaces. They are small bowl forms, covered in a slate-like texture that wraps around and protects the space within it."
Olivia Walker
COLLAPSED PORCELAIN BOWL
Œuvre Unique
2021
Porcelaine
Dimensions: Largeur 15 cm x Hauteur 18 cm
À propos de Collapsed Porcelain Bowl
« Mes Collapsed Porcelain Bowls sont jetés sur la roue avant d'être déconstruits et construits avec des centaines d'éclats de céramique fabriqués individuellement. -comme une surface construite sur des sections de la forme originale."
Olivia Walker