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]]>Calaca creates various unique and eye-catching ceramic pieces, including figurines, plates, and dishware. However, her most popular creations are animal sculptures that are slightly different than the real-life specimens they are inspired by.
For example, the octopuses she makes are bubbly, the lions have flat faces and short legs, and crocodiles are presented as walking like humans and dressed in a suit.
Despite not being what you expect, Calaca’s animals are adorable in their own way. The more you look at them, the more quirky details you discover about them. And they are truly one-of-a-kind because the artist never replicates her works.
“Even the copies I make on-demand are different from the original, they have mood and character of their own; some gain a wee bit of weight, some get a few new charming little wrinkles, and each of them hopes to be loved and cared for by their new owners,“ she explains.
Calaca’s animal sculptures are available on her official Etsy shop and website. You can also follow her newest creations on Instagram.
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]]>According to Tenenholtz, she had a creative itch since early childhood but didn’t get interested in ceramics until graduating from college. After attending one ceramics class, she became captivated by the possibilities that clay offered her in a creative sense and never looked back.
(@c_tenenholtz_ceramics)For the past three decades, Tenenholtz has been creating ceramic vessels, vases, and all sorts of other ceramic pieces. She developed a distinct style, which made her recognizable in the ceramics community and among ceramics enthusiasts.
“I’ve spent the last 30 years of my life devoted to this craft and finding ways to support myself in these endeavors,” Tenenholtz shares. “What a fun and seat of the pants lifestyle! But I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
Tenenholtz adds that she gets inspired by different things for her ceramics creations but always tends to the elements of her signature style. This allows her to avoid being repetitive while making the work instantly recognizable at the same time.
Tenenholtz’s rainbow ceramic vessels can be browsed and purchased on her official website. She also often shares her newest creations on social media. Check out some of them below.
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]]>Based in Madrid, the signature-ceramic brand is named after Julieta Álvarez, with all of their products handmade and therefore – one of a kind. With a background in fashion and graphic design, Álvarez says she loves the versatility of ceramics. “I’m in love with ceramic because is a material that allows almost everything,” she told Cup of Couple. “You can experiment with it, try new things, learn, make jewelry, sculptures or just disconnect from the world and lose track of time.”
Winter Sale Structural in nature, the sisters’ pieces – which include accessories and deco – have been shown at galleries, stores, and international museums such as the Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Luxembourg or the Reina Sofía in Madrid, amongst others.
“I’m so interested in contrasts,” says Álvarez. “When you look at nature you can find geometric shapes, symmetries and repeated patterns following a mathematical behavior, but at the same time, you find chaos, disorder, poetry, and shapes without any coherence.”
Here are some of our favorite pieces by the brand:
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]]>“My roots are in ceramic & glass art & design,” the artist’s website reads. “From there I’ve built my way to illustration and visual storytelling. Regardless of material and medium, my works share the same characteristics – rhythmic & bold use of colors and lines and essentially passion for drawing.”
Scroll down to check out her work and join the growing army of her fans if you want to see more of it in the future.
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]]>In it, she carved cylindrical stoneware vessels with iconography, reminiscent of ancient artifacts of a long-lost civilization. Her inspiration for her creations varied from Flemish and Renaissance paintings and medieval illuminated manuscripts to Safavid period carpets, Japanese woodblock prints, Greek black-figure, and red-figure pottery.
But though her art seems to be out of time and out of place, her goal is for it to communicate with others. “I am very sentimental, but I want my work to be open and have more entry points and interpretations,” she told Art of Choice. “That’s more what I am doing now in both my paintings and sculptures.”
Talking about how she balances between ceramics and painting, Little added: “For me, I get a bit stir crazy so bouncing between the two mediums helps break up my time. Typically I will work in one medium for a period of months and then switch, with that amount of time you can sort of get somewhere with something, and also get to the point where you are yearning for the other thing and start to build anticipation for the shift.”
Take a look at some of her original artwork in the gallery below:
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]]>Anything from toothbrushes to a calculator is recreated using clay. “Objects are memories, we are able to have a conversation with them,” she explained the thought process behind her work. “By being the archeologist of my own memories, I tried to bring the memories back to life in ceramic sculptures.”
Completely self-taught in sculpting, she learned how to use clay through YouTube tutorials, whilst completing a master’s degree in illustration at KASK School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium. But she admits to being drawn to ceramics from a much younger age while watching her grandmother make porcelain dolls.
“The work wants to connect to people because it was grown out of the most ordinary everyday surroundings,” she explains. “The automatic interaction with its audience brings up a memory-game of associations and stories. So we can discover the poetic aura they contain from the inside.”
Take a look at some of her creations in the gallery below:
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]]>Based in Derby, England, Meek has exhibited her work around the UK. Though her art is varied it features recurring themes, and Meek admits to being interested in layered forms, be it human behavior; what hides beneath the forefront of a person, or the detailed natural observations in geology and ecology such as eukaryotic organisms, mineral forms, and marine invertebrates.
“My work has evolved naturally over time,” she told Inky Goodness. “I guess it ‘officially’ began when my daughter went to school. I’d spend my free time in cafes, drawing people and picking up the buzz of comings and goings. Then a group of friends started an art collective.”
According to her, “It was never a serious thing, just a bunch of creative nuts throwing ideas about and drinking red wine. Somehow we managed to get hold of this lovely, crumbling four-story building and spent a good few months in it, larking about and just being free and creative. It was a beautiful time. We opened it to the public and had exhibitions, film nights, and performance art. And that was that. I decided I’m never going to be a 9-5 person. If I’m honest, I decided that when I was about 18. But now it’s no longer about maintaining a hedonistic lifestyle!”
A creative spirit at heart, Meek is often learning from trial and error. “At any given time, its’ really about continually bettering myself as an artist, and as a person,” she says. “Some people learn academically, others through social activity and experience. I’m definitely the latter.”
See some of her ceramic work in the gallery below:
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]]>“I feel like everything I end up making in some way ties back to my past,” admitted Little in an interview with Analog Watch Co.’s blog. “I often find myself thinking about objects I loved growing up and try to give them new life and context.”
“I grew up in a very creativity focused household,” he recalled. “My dad was always at a drafting board and my mom did a lot of drawing and glasswork. To me, art was just natural, and the more and more I worked at it the more it became an integral part of my life and my identity.”
After studying product design, Little eventually grew tired of what he calls “all the branding and plastic junk the field tends to leave in its wake.” He turned his attention to ceramics where he found more substance. “A lot of my new stuff is very much in the same nostalgic vein that I normally pull from but lately I’ve been really influenced by simplistic geometry contrasted by fluid motion,” he says.
Here are some of our favorite pieces.
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]]>“My goal is to make artwork that makes people feel good,” she said in an interview with Colleen Conroy. But the subjects she chooses are oftentimes quite frightening, and include things like ghosts and sharks, bringing to mind subjects related to nature and death. “As someone who is afraid of a lot of stuff, I feel that it is an interesting challenge to bring scary subjects into a positive light,” she explains.
One of her more unique products is a ceramic shark head meant to hang on your wall. “I feel that sharks are misunderstood, even by me,” says Stern. “Humans are definitely the more dangerous predator and sharks are a crucial part of our ecosystem and they need to be respected. I am not a shark expert, but I am interested in how our fear can play a role in how we treat things that scare us. By making the sharks in bright colors, and with goofy expressions invited you to see sharks up close with a new perspective.”
And talking about her bold color choices, she explains: “I choose colors that make me feel good. I am also inspired by patterns that make me feel good, like when I see the spots on a whale shark or a cheetah I get an indescribable feeling. Almost like FOMO. ‘I want to be apart of that some how!'”
Take a look at some of her work below.
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]]>“A lot of the mediums that I work with are associated with kid crafts, and it could be that I only feel that way because they are mediums I’ve been using since I was a kid,” she admits in an interview with Consort Design. “Sometimes I’ll really start to think about my work and I’m like, ‘Ok, I’m not an artist, I’m a 10-year-old living in an apartment’. Other times I’m like, ‘I AM an artist and my soul is 7 feet tall.’ I think that is a weird insecurity a lot of artists have – so maybe I became an artist when I started feeling that way.”
And with almost 35k fans on Instagram, she needn’t be insecure. Her pieces – childlike, funny, and unapologetically cool – take after food and animals, adding a humoristic edge to their surroundings. Describing her humor as 98% angel, 2% devil, Kimmel says she’s very much inspired by her trinket collection. “I love tchotchkes and mean-looking porcelain dolls,” she jokes. “I always leave an antique mall feeling very inspired.”
“My style is pretty true to my hand, so there hasn’t been much change there,” she adds, talking about her creative process. “Over the years I think my general craftsmanship has improved, and I have a better sense of direction of what I should be making.”
Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.
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