You can find YSP's online shop here: https://yspshop.org.uk/collections/florian-gadsby
(Almost all the pots have sold out already — but there's still some merchandise left and a few very special pieces).
In this week's video I'm creating 100 miniature stoneware vases that'll be available as a limited edition run for my YSP, (Yorkshire Sculpture Park), exhibition that has now launched, (the funds raised go into helping run YSP, as it's a charity). Throwing this many on the potter's wheel really tested my repetition making ability and in this film I discuss the throwing gauge used, the trimming, glazing and reduction firing to cone ten, (1290ºC / 2354ºF). Thanks for watching!
📏 • Here's a link to my friends throwing gauges: http://www.darrenellispottery.com/shop/1-pointer (Darren makes wonderful pots and tools and in no way is this link sponsored).
⚱️ • MORE about my YSP exhibition: https://ysp.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/florian-gadsby-by-my-hands
📖 • ORDER MY BOOK: http://ow.ly/9wYn50MQXV5
📢 • Find out much more about my work here: https://linktr.ee/floriangadsby
⏱ • Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction & talking about merchandise
1:07 - Weighing out and wedging clay
2:00 - Throwing the vases
4:43 - THE throwing gauge, (made by Darren Ellis)
8:06 - Trimming the vases
13:15 - Loading the electric kiln for a bisque firing
15:07 - Unpacking the electric kiln
16:13 - Waxing the bases
18:03 - Glazing
20:42 - Tidying up the glazed pots
23:41 - Packing the Rohde KG-340
25:12 - Firing the gas kiln in a reduction atmosphere
27:42 - Unpacking the gas kiln
28:31 - Sanding the vases bases
29:18 - The finished pieces
I throw using both a Rohde HMT 500 & 600 potter's wheel and fire using Rohde kilns too, the electric is a TE-200 and the gas kiln is a KG-340.
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