Ceramics & Design

www.helenrebeccadesigns.com

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Helen’s work embraces the crossover space between art, craft and design. She makes objects that play with our sense of what is familiar, functional and beautiful. Each piece, or collection of pieces, is a balance between exposing the materiality of clay and glaze and an object’s function or purpose. Helen searches for the material origins of objects and explores how they are presented and perceived in our culture today. Molten and cooled glazes form the surfaces of Helen’s pieces. Glazes fuse chemistry compositions. Surfaces reassemble like aquascapes and horizons, or places where scale and form are less perceptible. This gives way to an exploratory feel, both sensory and mental. Current works explore what a vase form is using slip casting, slab ware hand building techniques and ever evolving glazed surfaces.

Recent commissions have included works for Aberdeen Standard Life, Chateau Villepreux, a design collaboration with UK fashion designer Olivia Ruben and several media have featured Helen’s work including most recently; Channel 4’s Inside Out Homes, Etc Magazine and Landscape Magazine.