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Feast teapots
Maker:
Richard Stratton
Materials: Unique, hand thrown, altered, slipcast components, assembled with multiple glaze firing
Show: Clay Economies
Collector: Collector
Courtesy Private Collections Auckland & Wellington |
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Richard Stratton studied ceramics at Otago Polytechnic School of Art in the late 1980s before working for a period in production potteries in the UK. His Feast series displays an avid interest in historic European forms of ceramic production, somewhat improbably combined with autobiographical reflections on domestic life. The bodies of the teapots are hand-thrown and reference the globular form of eighteenth century Wedgwood models. Typically Stratton casts his spouts and handles from ubiquitous vernacular examples sourced from Wellington ‘Op' shops, however in this case he has delved into a miscellany of iconic eighteenth century ceramic examples. Stratton is represented by Anna Miles Gallery.
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