Hinterwater I.
Terracotta clay. Part thrown on the potter’s wheel and part coiled built. The leaves are applied individually. The the glaze is hand made also with barium and cobalt to achieve a volcanic finish. The piece is approximately 60cm H x 40cm W and variable.
| Weight | 2 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 45 × 40 × 60 cm |
Handle with a hand inside the pot and supported by the other hand underneath to lift or transport. To clean, shower very carefully as not to disturb the decoration and leave to dry in a sunny dry place.
The Hinterwater Project is inspired by a waterside setting, the Aire and Calder Navigation canal. A particular inspiration for her new collection is the recent emergence of new wild flower and grass habitats along the old post industrial canal and river route as nature reclaims what was lost during industrialisation. Based in Yorkshire, Adele finds this particularly poignant and inspiring. ‘The melancholy feel of the canal’s faded industrial history around East Yorkshire,’ she says with feeling, ‘is now being brightened by an explosion of natural wildlife. My new work aims to capture both the industrial past and allude to the contemporary globalisation which has led to its next environmental phase’.
The irony is not lost on her that the pottery carried on this very waterway in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries canals displayed idealised Neo-Classical landscapes of the sort that never existed and were vastly removed from the industrial pollution that set in train a process that today has turned full circle. ‘My collection celebrates today’s wild and living landscape and heightens awareness of the importance of necessary pollinators, and the dangers of global pollution and environmental change.
