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My Ceramics

In the studio I like to do	Handbuilding, Sculpting, Slip casting, Everything to do with Ceramics
Pottery Wheel	Shimpo Rk 3E
Clay body	Earthenware, Stoneware, Porcelain
Clay Brand	Scarva, Sibelco
Kiln Type	Electric Kiln, Raku Kiln
Kiln Atmosphere	Oxidation Atmosphere
Temperature	1200
Glaze	Ready and selfmade glazes.
You can buy my work from	My web pages.

About Me

Introduction	Hi, at this moment I`m siting in front of my workingdesk and I see white landscape. Someone is cross-country skiing and quite many people are having dogs with them. Its quite quiet. My name is Anni and I`m from Finland (did you guess already?). I`m thinking what to teach to my pupils in art school. They are 7-16 years old. But same time im thinking what to do next with my paperporcelain art works. I`m interested of anything what involves ceramics! I love to try different methods and materials. I love to hear artist talks about their works. Etc.
What I Love about Ceramics	Sounds, structure, forms, making and handling the clay. Loving opening the kiln with excitement. Everything!
How I started with ceramics	When I was about 6 years old I was watching childrend program from tv. I sew a man with clay and he was shaping African animals, like elephant. I remenber watching it and thinking that I want to do exatly the same, just perfect shape and so smooth. I was also in art school and there I wanted to do nothing but clay works and I thought that Im quite good at it. After high school I got into Aalto university in Helsinki and started journey with art education. Theaching is something that has been always in me… Well after studying and few years teaching I wanted to learn more and specially ceramic and so I did. And after 2005 I have done a lot of ceramicworks besides art teaching. And now even more ceramicart!
What inspires me	Thinking inspires me at this moment!
What I'm working on at the moment	Paperporcelainsculptures.
My Artist Statement	When I`m sitting front of my desk I`m working with piece of clay, which is amorphous form. I`m trying to achieve forms from my imagination. Therefore my eyes are in my fingertips and I`m trying to see what I´m working with. Working and touching are related to time. You don`t feel if you don’t stop. Usually people are only watching works in exhibitions but I want to offer a possibility to touch my works. Ceramic surface is made for touching. “You can feel all my works!”
My CV	These are my resent exhibitions in Finland. And more is coming! 3:40 2019 Helsinki and in Tampere 3:40 was a time themed group exhibition by three ceramic artists from Hämeenlinna, Finland. We shared a studio space and are all born in 1979. 3:40 is an exhibition about present, past and the feeling of time in oneself. The phenomena of the present time, definition of time and being present at the moment were all be seen in the exhibition. The 3:40 in Gallery Myymälä2 was a first part of the exhibitions the group, the second part was in Tampere, in Gallery Ronga, in the Autumn 2019. In the very Act 2019 Rovaniemi, Arktikum The teachers and principals of the visual arts schools for children and young people was presented as practitiones of fine art in the Galleries of Arktikum run by The University of Lapland, faculty of art and design. ”Usually people are only watching works in exhibitions but I want to offer a possibility to touch my works. Ceramic surface is made for touching. -You can feel all my works!” Viiva 2018 Art museum of Hämeenlinna Viiva was a line themed group exhibition in Art museum of Hämeenlinna. It was a 70 years birthday exhibition hold by Artist Society of Hämeenlinna. There was first touchable work of mine called ”Feel the line”. 350 cm long glazed line made of earthenware. Fly away 2015 Gallery Arx, Hämeenlinna In Young Artist exhibition I had a bunch of balloons made of casting clay. Twelve balloons were hang up from the roof and were like flying away. I thought they were en route from a circus.