Craft artists
create handmade objects, such as pottery, glassware, textiles, and other objects that are designed to be functional.
That said, it is as if almost no one knows how to
create handmade objects anymore: the tradition of craft has been lost.
Not exact matches
The artist employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found
objects and photographs to
handmade sculptures and living plants,
creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums.
Helen Marten, also exhibiting in this year's Turner prize,
creates intense, playful and highly detailed sculptures and installations that mix the readymade with the
handmade, exploring how we build and use relationships with
objects.
In very different ways Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde all
create situations and tell stories, via sculpture, photographs and other kinds of images, manufactured
objects, the found, the
handmade and the borrowed.
For this new commission they have
created a display of industrial ceramic production and
handmade objects developed with Granby Workshop as part of their community - led rebuilding of a Liverpool neighbourhood.
Alexandra Bircken is an artist who has attracted interest for her sculptures and installations that combine knitted elements with organic and lowly materials such as hair, leather, dried grass, latex and twigs,
creating amulet - like
objects with an arts and crafts aesthetic that reflect her background in fashion design and an interest in the radical aspects of
handmade culture.
In this new exhibition, Peet continues his «Stilifes» series, mixing his
handmade ceramics of handheld devices with found
objects to
create quirky assemblages that are ripe with meaning.
Every
object is then
handmade — Marten works with ceramicists, metalworkers, carpenters and embroiderers to
create the strange components that form her art.
McElheny
creates finely crafted,
handmade glass
objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory.
Original photography along with found images,
objects, and historical detritus, are assembled and mounted on
handmade, sculptural forms; these devices operate as boundaries that
create relationships and divisions between pictures, texts, ideas, and natural and abstract forms.
Focusing on
objects and structures which are «
handmade», using traditional and more ad - hoc craft techniques, the works featured are often
created using a simple, repetitive action, from crochet, plaiting, weaving and winding to stringing, shredding, binding and crumpling.
Helen Marten's work features
handmade as well as found
objects such as cotton buds and fish skins to
create «poetic visual puzzles».
Driven by early training in printmaking, Smith challenges the romantic mythology of the artist by
creating mixed - media compositions that combine the
handmade with manufactured and found
objects to examine the value of originality versus facsimile.
One of the founding figures of Italian Arte Povera, Jannis Kounellis had spent the past 50 years
creating works about everyday life, mixing found
objects with
handmade elements.
Both of their works have the quality of a rugged
handmade sign post - visual art
objects, but
created as though they serve some utilitarian purpose.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have worked alongside master glassmakers in Italy to
create a collection of
handmade objects, which they liken to still - life paintings by Italian artist Giorgio Morandi.
Her intricate and intriguing sculptures bring together a range of
handmade and found
objects as varied as cotton buds to fish skins, to
create poetic visual puzzles.