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The Conversation: Women making art from clay

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Hitomi Hosono and Zemer Peled

08/03/2021 GMT

Women making art from clay

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Ceramicists Hitomi Hosono and Zemer Peled on the therapeutic quality of working with clay

Ceramicists Hitomi Hosono from Japan and Zemer Peled from Israel talk to Kim Chakanetsa about how nature inspires them to make intricate and complex contemporary art from clay.

Pottery is one of the oldest and most widespread decorative arts and has enjoyed rising popularity in recent years. At the same time, ceramics are increasingly significant as contemporary art. Kim Chakanetsa talks to two ceramicists about sprigging, drying, firing and smashing; commercial collaborations; and getting their pieces in museums. 
 
Hitomi Hosono is a Japanese ceramicist whose delicate work sits in the British Museum and V&A. She's also collaborated with the world-famous Wedgewood pottery manufacturer to make jasperware vases. Her ceramics, with a chalk-like finish and gold embellishments, are rooted in both Japanese and European traditions. Inspired by the intricacy of plants, leaves and flowers her pots seem to sway in the breeze and grow.
 
Israeli ceramicist Zemer Peled took up pottery as part of therapy after a break-up in her 20s and now exhibits at galleries and museums around the world. Her work examines the beauty and brutality of the natural world. She makes large and small-scale sculptures and installations from thousands of porcelain shards – and has a growing collection of hammers!
 
Produced by Jane Thurlow 
 
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Left: Hitomi Hosono (courtesy Adrian Sassoon)
Right: Zemer Peled (credit Zemer Peled Studio)

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