Two piece Ceramic Sculpture by Rebekah Hall
Circularity: The Akura, a funnel of sticks that is joined at an apex to prevent Eels escaping the Hīnaki trap.
Hīnaki: Work inspired by Hīnaki Eel traps, broken, mended and eventually discarded and returned to the earth. A study of weaving and shadows and the stories they tell of everyday objects and ourselves.
Piece 1: 180×205×125mm
Piece 2: 130×150×110mm
Material: Ceramic with hand painted White glaze
Rebekah, a Ceramic Artist, originally from the UK moved to New Zealand with her family in 2005 she now works from her home at: The Kauri Tree Studio, Picton, Aotearoa New Zealand. She gained a Diploma in Ceramic Arts (Level 6) from Otago Polytechnic, via Auckland Studio Potters, in 2013 and undertook studies in Sculpture, Life drawing & Design at Hungry Creek Art School Puhoi, Auckland.
Living near the coast encourages her to be a watcher of water, enjoying a slow pace of living and making, becoming part of its ebb & flow. Rebekah will occasionally incorporate local wild dug clay & slip or river sand into her ceramic work. Pieces are sculptural & often biomorphic in design to express her fascination with the skeletal forms of plants & animals. The works becoming a vehicle to capture movement, time, light & shadow.
Her most recent body of work looks at the human figure; reductive, roughly & quickly modeled resulting in an inherent vitality of movement. These forms are combined with a “plinth” which has a painterly surface created by a multiplicity of glazes, reminiscent of the ocean or seabed that is her local environment. These works encourage you to get close, touch, explore from different viewpoints, hopefully enabling the viewer to connect with her in a shared story of place.
Two piece Ceramic Sculpture by Rebekah Hall
Circularity: The Akura, a funnel of sticks that is joined at an apex to prevent Eels escaping the Hīnaki trap.
Hīnaki: Work inspired by Hīnaki Eel traps, broken, mended and eventually discarded and returned to the earth. A study of weaving and shadows and the stories they tell of everyday objects and ourselves.
Piece 1: 180×205×125mm
Piece 2: 130×150×110mm
Material: Ceramic with hand painted White glaze
Rebekah, a Ceramic Artist, originally from the UK moved to New Zealand with her family in 2005 she now works from her home at: The Kauri Tree Studio, Picton, Aotearoa New Zealand. She gained a Diploma in Ceramic Arts (Level 6) from Otago Polytechnic, via Auckland Studio Potters, in 2013 and undertook studies in Sculpture, Life drawing & Design at Hungry Creek Art School Puhoi, Auckland.
Living near the coast encourages her to be a watcher of water, enjoying a slow pace of living and making, becoming part of its ebb & flow. Rebekah will occasionally incorporate local wild dug clay & slip or river sand into her ceramic work. Pieces are sculptural & often biomorphic in design to express her fascination with the skeletal forms of plants & animals. The works becoming a vehicle to capture movement, time, light & shadow.
Her most recent body of work looks at the human figure; reductive, roughly & quickly modeled resulting in an inherent vitality of movement. These forms are combined with a “plinth” which has a painterly surface created by a multiplicity of glazes, reminiscent of the ocean or seabed that is her local environment. These works encourage you to get close, touch, explore from different viewpoints, hopefully enabling the viewer to connect with her in a shared story of place.
