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Kristina Veasey

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kristinaveaseyartist

Multi-layered artist. Sculpture, installation, crafts, digital art/sound/film. Identity, routines, connection, provocation, commonalities & difference

It's been a slow and exhausting start to the year; It's been a slow and exhausting start to the year; full of frustrations, annoying health issues and a disorientating dose of ableist bullshit just to really get things going. However, I'm a glass half full kinda girl. Yesterday I saw a whole bed of yellow daffs waving at me from a neighbours garden. Their brightness pierced my brain after weeks of gloom. They awakened me with reminders of blue skies and the gentle warmth of Spring. Things to look forward to!
There is a world of chaos out there that breaks my heart. And I'm taking a breath and feeling grateful for it. Because I'm able to, when others can't.
Today was pottery again and my favourite time of the week. It's been a scratchy start to the year, but today I found my flow again, and I can't tell you how good it felt. #newyear #pottery
Fantasy Fungi I love this very organic, instinctu Fantasy Fungi

I love this very organic, instinctual way of creating. The pieces develop themselves. I just channel thoughts of forest and let my hands do the talking. I never know how it's going to come out and it's always a lovely surprise. Each piece is a separate component, and can be exhibited alone or in composition with others to create a myriad of ever evolving landscapes.

#fungi #ceramics #pottery #contemporaryceramics #forest
Trying out my new light box to photograph my ceram Trying out my new light box to photograph my ceramic work. Love being able to adjust the light intensity and warmth. Bonus to be able to fold it all down into a flat box for storage too!

#ceramic #pottery #fungi #forest #airplants

Reel shows image of light box and fungi inspired ceramic sculptural vessel containing water and adorned with air plants.
Tudor carpet waterer, complete with Shakespearean Tudor carpet waterer, complete with Shakespearean inspired insults.

Clay-brained miscreant
Bawdy hedge-pig
Spleeny canker-blossom
Onion-eyed malt-worm
Beslubbering gorbellied pignut

A carpet waterer was used to dampen the dust and reeds that covered the floors of Tudor houses.

The unglazed bottom of the pot is pierced with over fifty holes. The top has a neck narrow enough to be held between two upturned fingers, allowing the thumb to rest over the single hole on the top of the pot.

To fill the pot you fully submerge it in water, keeping your thumb over the top hole to create a vacuum to keep the water in. You lift your thumb off the hole to sprinkle the water through the holes at the bottom. The pot had to be light enough to be carried by one hand, even when full of water.

#carpetwaterer #thumbwaterer #tudor #ceramics #sgraffito
Tudor carpet waterer, complete with Shakespearean Tudor carpet waterer, complete with Shakespearean inspired insults.

Clay-brained miscreant
Bawdy hedge-pig
Spleeny canker-blossom
Onion-eyed malt-worm
Beslubbering gorbellied pignut

A carpet waterer was used to dampen the dust and reeds that covered the floors of Tudor houses.

The unglazed bottom of the pot is pierced with over fifty holes. The top has a neck narrow enough to be held between two upturned fingers, allowing the thumb to rest over the single hole on the top of the pot.

To fill the pot you fully submerge it in water, keeping your thumb over the top hole to create a vacuum to keep the water in. You lift your thumb off the hole to sprinkle the water through the holes at the bottom. The pot had to be light enough to be carried by one hand, even when full of water.

#carpetwaterer #thumbwaterer #tudor #ceramics #sgraffito
Reel shows carpet waterer adorned with insults carved into the ceramic surface, rotating
Spreading a little light on a cold winters night Spreading a little light on a cold winters night

#forest  #artist #ceramics #clay #lantern

Reel shows flickering candle illuminating leafy edges of ceramic sculpture
I think it's time I out myself as an addict. Textu I think it's time I out myself as an addict. Textures, the feel of the clay, the whole synaesthetic sensory experience, it fuels my everyday. I'm 2 years and 5 months into my ceramics journey and have been utterly consumed. The Audhd experience, for me at least, permeates every fibre of being: mental, physical and emotional. It's a whole body experience. I love that there's so much to explore, so much more to learn. I love the blending of science and art. I feel the tug of my family history, rooted in the Lambeth potteries of the 1800's. I am drawn to the earth and the deposits of wild clay. I feel connected to something elemental, conversing and meshing with the natural world. Working the clay instinctively and without agenda both excites and tantalises, it's so full of possibility; whilst simultaneously regulating, calming and resetting my inner systems. It's an endless dopamine hit, and I'm completely hooked!

Reel shows artist with blue hair interacting with a highly textured ceramic pot.

#ceramics #pottery #potterylove #clay #textures #sensory #connection #science #geology #chemistry #art #artist synaesthesia #claysculpture #pottersofinstagram #contemporaryceramics #disabilityarts #audhd #neurodivergent #autistic #adhd
Adding a little twinkle to a wintry night #pots # Adding a little twinkle to a wintry night

#pots #clay #ceramics #winter #pottery
Precarity @kristinaveaseyartist, 2024 This sculp Precarity
@kristinaveaseyartist, 2024 

This sculpture grew from a shared experience between two disabled artists living on different sides of the world (Brazil and UK) both exploring their local forests. Navigating uneven ground and trip hazards they became aware of their balance, movement and constant scanning of the forest floor which were essential to avoid falls which could easily result in broken bones and dislocations. This hyper-vigilence brought new observations and perspectives and focused the artists on the point of interconnectedness between body and forest, and the energy transfer between the two. As they become part of the forest algorithms, they asked where do we end and the forest begin? 

#capturingtheforest
@inbetweentime @weareunltd @alejandroahmed
#forest #forestbathing #forestlovers #nature #outsideinside #sculpture #ceramic #kineticsculpture #artist #installationart #disabilityarts #EDS #brittlebones #osteogenesisimperfecta #access #landscapes

Reel shows branch rotating above a slice of tree trunk treated with Shou Sugi Ban, on a sandstone block. It is encircled by concentric rings of moss, leaves and ceramic sculptures.
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