Annie Crowe

Annie Crowe BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design 2020

Annie is a Manchester-based ceramicist, specialising in wheel throwing and glazing. She combines simplistic ceramic forms as a canvas with explorative, experimental and tactile glaze to create sculptural objects. This process evokes an abstract response to the weather-worn coastal landscape that informs her current practice.

Finding inspiration within the natural world, Annie’s starting points often come from sketches, photographs or found objects from a range of coastal destinations and the memories of these places. Residing in the starkly contrasting urban environment, she aims to encapsulate and translate her experience of the coastline within the objects she creates.

Annie communicates these ideas through a combination of slips, englobes and bold reactive glazes that transform and produces unpredictable spontaneous outcomes during the firing process, capturing a permutable state as the kiln cools. Working with a subtle and muted colour pallet of neutral tones enables texture, gradient and depth to be the focus of the object.

Annie values the unpredictable nature and challenges that occur when working with a natural medium like clay. She considers her practice to be a collaboration between herself and the material, allowing her making process to be flexible and lenient, often resulting in exciting, unique and unexpected outcomes.

Contact Annie

annie_crowe@hotmail.co.uk
anniecrowe.wixsite.com/anniecroweceramics
instagram.com/anniecroweceramics
'Growth' Ceramic wheel-thrown stoneware with reactive and decorative crater glaze.
'Transitional States' Ceramic wheel-thrown stoneware with reactive and decorative crater glaze.
'Transitional States' Ceramic wheel-thrown stoneware with reactive and decorative crater glaze.
'Growth' Ceramic wheel-thrown stoneware with reactive and decorative crater glaze.
'Growth' Ceramic wheel-thrown stoneware with reactive and decorative crater glaze.
'Sea' Ceramic wheel-thrown stoneware with reactive and decorative crater glaze.
'Sea' Ceramic wheel-thrown stoneware with reactive and decorative crater glaze.
'The Portugal Series' The Portugal Series was inspired by my lived experience of residing in a city. Today, city inhabiters often lack access to natural spaces and find themselves surrounded by concrete and the manmade. Influenced by research into biophilic design and architecture, I became aware of the importance and beneficial effects of exposure to nature on human cognitive function and emotional needs. This series endeavours to provide a practical solution to inject a little bit of nature into a city home by bringing in plants. Taking into account the often modest-size city dwellers have to work with, these planters are suspended by cotton cord, so as to not take up surface space. Inspired by textures found on the rocks at Ursa Beach, Portugal - the glazes seek to capture the naturally formed haphazard patterns that form naturally on the rocks surfaces. Lathe formed and slip cast ceramic, Oak elements and glaze.
'The Portugal Series' The Portugal Series was inspired by my lived experience of residing in a city. Today, city inhabiters often lack access to natural spaces and find themselves surrounded by concrete and the manmade. Influenced by research into biophilic design and architecture, I became aware of the importance and beneficial effects of exposure to nature on human cognitive function and emotional needs. This series endeavours to provide a practical solution to inject a little bit of nature into a city home by bringing in plants. Taking into account the often modest-size city dwellers have to work with, these planters are suspended by cotton cord, so as to not take up surface space. Inspired by textures found on the rocks at Ursa Beach, Portugal - the glazes seek to capture the naturally formed haphazard patterns that form naturally on the rocks surfaces. Lathe formed and slip cast ceramic, Oak elements and glaze.
Glaze development swatches from 'Transitional States'
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