{"id":118965,"date":"2025-03-08T01:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/bi-monthly-display-billy-adams\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T01:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:20:53","slug":"bi-monthly-display-billy-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=118965","title":{"rendered":"Bi-Monthly Display | Billy Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Billy Adams in his studio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Our March Bi-Monthly display kicks off with Billy Adams, a Wales based maker whose work explores relationships between himself and the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Billy Adams on display at Contemporary Ceramics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

“Billy Adams was born in Derry, Northern Ireland and grew up near the
\nborder during the Troubles of the 1970s and \u201880s. To escape the
\npolitical conflict, he often spent time roaming the hills of Donegal and
\n exploring the landscape. He studied a Master\u2019s degree in Ceramics at
\nCardiff Institute of Higher Education in the late 1980s and he has been
\nliving and working in Wales ever since. His initial thrown forms were
\nbased on ancient Celtic monuments such as standing stones. Later, he
\nbegan to reflect more on their landscape settings, especially the wild
\nrugged beauty of Connemara and Donegal, and the dramatic West Wales
\ncoastline. He incorporates geological elements, natural colours, as well
\n as the marks of human activity on the landscape in to his vessels. The
\nresulting monumental jugs, vases and bowls with fractured surface
\ntextures are also a provocation to the onlooker to question the value of
\n a vessel as a piece of sculpture. Billy Adams is a Fellow of the CPA,
\nCraft Potters Association of the UK.” Source: Aberystwyth University, Ceramics Collection and Archive. http:\/\/www.ceramics-aberystwyth.com\/billy-adams-transitions<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nThis is the first time of showing for Billy Adams at Contemporary Ceramics in its current location. Billy draws from the landscape for inspiration. He works within the vessel format and finds ways to transfer his response to the natural environment into the surfaces and colours of his pieces. He presents his vessels as an\u00a0 intimate insight into his private view of ceramics, a personal world framed through his interpretation of form and function. His world is a combination of structures and forms interacting with man made elements, through which his aim is to provoke the onlooker to question the value of a vessel as a piece of sculpture. <\/p>\n

Billy prefers to stay within the realms of the vessel. He reconsiders physical elements such as rims, handles, and lips, which are commonplace within traditional ceramics. The resulting forms are recognisable as jugs, bowls and vessels, although not functional in this way. Billy aims for them to convey\u00a0 his perception and memory of an ever-changing landscape.<\/p>\n

\nClay<\/h3>\n

Adams\u2019 vessels incorporate three different types of clay. During the
\nmaking process, his clay varies in shrinkage; the outer layer shrinks by
\n 14% and the inner layer by 4%. This is highlighted by his glazing
\ntechnique. Each piece of work is fired between four and five times.
\nAfter the standard bisquit firing, he applies a 1280\u00b0 glaze and follows
\nit up with a 1100\u00b0 glaze firing, and then a 1040\u00b0 glaze firing,
\neventually ending with a 795\u00b0 lustre firing. After the glazes are
\nsprayed on, they are directionally rubbed off, only to be applied again.
\n This builds up a rich vocabulary of tones and colours, highlighting the
\n unique surface which is characteristic of Adams\u2019 work.<\/p>\n

Billy Adams work is on display and for sale in the gallery from March to June 2020.
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Billy Adams | Babby Bowl<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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