Craftspersons are using a large number of ancient terms in the workshops of the Manufactory. The terms are poetic and full of imagery. Moreover, they are linked with special production techniques and skills, as well as with tools designed and produced in situ. Here is a presentation of these terms in a glossary.
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Ceramic Art London is now in its sixth year and recognised as the leading international fair for contemporary ceramics, with over 75 ceramic artists displaying a varied selection of exciting and challenging work.

Contemporary ceramics is a rich field of creativity in Japan. Artists have undertaken many and various forms of research. And if each of them has found their own way of making their clay speak, they are all in agreement on the role of the artist-creator.
This role is to feed off the past, while incorporating outside stimuli and transmitting, through the medium of clay, their own experience. The avowed and constant goal is constantly to renew this art and to push its limits to the outmost.
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I you have the chance to be at the Art Basel next week, you will have make a stop at Pierre-Marie Giraud’s stand. The gallery will expose fin and inventive contemporary ceramic. The Pierre Marie Giraud Gallery is situated in the historical Sablon neighbourhood in Brussels.