Festival 2009
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TwitterHayon Ceramics
— Jaime Hayon
UK Premiere
Venue
Emma Bridgewater Pottery, The Courtyard, Eastwood Works,
Lichfield Street, City Centre ST1 3EJ
01782 201328
Dates
3 October — 29 November
10.00am — 5.00pm, Tuesday — Saturday
10.00am – 4.00pm, Sunday
“Ceramics is like rice because it has the same properties in terms of telling us about different countries and cultures.”
Jaime Hayon
The Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, who works from studios in Barcelona, Treviso and London, is an energetic and sparkling innovator with a particularly sensitive response to ceramics. As a teenager he immersed himself in skateboard culture and graffiti art, the foundation of the detailed, bold-yet-whimsical imagery so prominent in his work today. He has worked with a number of major European companies including Lladro and Baccarat, reinvigorating their traditional product through developing a close relationship with those companies and their workforce.
“I want to show classical companies that believing in and working with designers is a good way forward. How being courageous and working collaboratively taking risks can bring success. To designers I want to say consider your local crafts infrastructure; you have a responsibility to conserve these crafts! I’m interested in making a contribution, and helping out in the place I live.”
For the first time, Jaime is presenting a collection of ceramics produced over the past ten years in a specially designed setting, curated by Spring Projects.
“Hayon and timid are two words that dispel each other like incompatible magnets… he’s like a book you can’t put down, except that you’re not holding the book and it’s reading itself.”
Creative Review
Click on American Chateau to view Jaime’s latest project with artist Nienke Klunder.
