Art teacher crowd funds by making one thousand cups
For Release 29.1.2015
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Art teacher crowd funds by making one thousand cups
Whanganui— 22/01/2015[Date] — Saturday the 31st of January the 1000 cups project will be launched by Leigh Anderton-Hall and exhibited for 3 weeks at Space Gallery in Whanganui. As a way of launching her studio, Aramoho Productions, Leigh Anderton-Hall has been working every day throughout January hand building and firing 1000 ceramic cups.
For Leigh, who has been a project based artist in mediums as diverse as painting, stop motion puppetry, print making and installations, ceramics is a new medium for her to work in. What started as research and testing for a project to work with students has now developed into an art project in its own right. Making a 1000 cups in a period of six weeks is quite a marathon for an artist new to production.
“Based on a paper cup design with a quirk, this is the first time I have made the same object over and over, rolling the clay, cutting the pattern, joining the pieces, decorating and firing has its own rhythm and beauty in the daily action.”
Each cup is decorated with either a pattern, a coloured slip, or a glaze pigment that creates an individual unique work. Although the saying is 10,000 things, hours or prayers, that wasn’t going to fit within the summer break, so a thousand seemed the right amount. This summer being gorgeous, with little wind and very hot days, Leigh has spent up to 12 hours most days to meet this quota. At her opening she will have 2/3 made and will complete the task on the 20th of February.
Leigh hopes to sell enough cups from the exhibition to allow her to scale back her teaching at Whanganui UCOL and spend more time on her art. The cups are for sale both on-line at www.1000cupsproject.com or through Space Gallery in Whanganui.
For more information:
http://spacestudiogallery.co.nz/