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Adam Frew
Dark stoneware yunomi. Height: 11.4cm (4.5”) Diameter; 7.4cm (2.9”) Price: SOLD	Copper glazed yunomi. Height: 10.9cm (4.3”) Diameter: 7.1cm (2.8”) Price: £40
Copper glazed cylindrical vase. Height: 17.3cm (6.8”) Price: £55
Adam Frew spent a couple of years working with Lisa Hammond at the Maze Hill Pottery in Greenwich, before starting a residency in 2006 at the Flowerfield Art Centre on the North Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, where the work above was made. This marked a return “home” for Adam, being Belfast born and a graduate of the University of Ulster in Fine and Applied Art. Despite his young age, Adam has a considerable wealth of experience, as besides working with Lisa he spent three months at the Winchcombe Pottery and a further ten months working at a pottery in Finland. Adam works with stoneware clay and deliberately misshapes the vessels during the throwing process to produce distinctive and utterly inimitable forms. The potter’s wheel being Adam’s creative tool and the clay surface his three-dimensional canvas. His larger vessels are made in two pieces and these along with many of his smaller rounded forms are indicative of oriental storage jars. Decoration is spontaneous, including drawing on the clay while it is still wet and layering slips and glazes in an abstract expressionist manner. No doubt influenced by Japanese aesthetics that fascinate him, together with his lifelong passion for Jazz.
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