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| First Name | Sepideh |
| Last Name | Jahanpanah |
| Nickname | Sepi |
Social Media
| Website |
My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Sculpting, Everything to do with Ceramics |
| Pottery Wheel | I don't use pottery wheel |
| Clay body | Stoneware, Porcelain |
| Clay Brand | different commercial brands which I sometimes manipulate to my desire and mix and match them |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln |
| Kiln Atmosphere | Oxidation Atmosphere |
| Temperature | 1240-1300°C |
| Glaze | I make my own glazes, mostly different shades from white matt to grey and cream. I love different blues and greens as well which I use it in a minimal way. I hardly use other colours and if I do it looks mostly rusty and is in combination with dark clay. |
| You can buy my work from | You can buy Desert Spirit Ceramics through two platforms: Masters and crafters which is a new Dutch platform and the good old Etsy! Some of my works are only on my Instagram page, so you can communicate with me there as well. Some of my works are only presented in galleries. |
About Me
| Introduction | My name is Sepideh. I am an artist and a ceramist based in The Hague. I received my BA at the Art University, Esfahan and my MA Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Next to conceptual artworks, I nowadays make sculptural cups. In my art practice, I am fascinated by natural processes such as eroded rocks and organic structures on a microscopic scale, which have become the source of inspiration for my ceramics as well. |
| What I Love about Ceramics | I love ceramic for many reasons. Sometimes because ceramics are frozen accidental moments and sometimes because they are absolutely unpredictable. I don’t know any other material that can give you so many possibilities of how to work with. Clay is friendly and harsh at the same time, is very honest and forgiving as well. |
| How I started with ceramics | It started way before learning ceramic for the last study year of my BA. Since my BA graduation, I worked on and off with clay, but couldn’t manage to set up a ceramic studio until 2017 when I started to dedicate my passion for creativity fully to ceramic again. |
| What inspires me | Natural phenomena, organic forms and structures in nature and our bodies as part of it and the clay itself are my sources of inspiration. I believe I shouldn’t force clay too much to become what I imagine in my head, instead, I try to coexist with clay. |
| What I'm working on at the moment | I love making sculptures as well as functional pieces which are also sculptural inevitably. At the moment, I am developing my conceptual artworks in different sculptural forms while periodically making small patches of cups. |
| My Artist Statement | I have been fascinated by the production process of an artwork and in general any progress rather than the solid and finished outcome. Therefore I’ve worked on the concept of process as an artistic medium in the format of documentary. It can be the natural process of growth, erosion or molding that stands for the concepts of life within death and death within life in my work. After years of observation of what fascinates me in nature and studying the visual aspect of the natural phenomena in their natural or artificial environments, I’ve become strongly inspired by the juxtaposition of organic forms and colors. Using the skills that I have been developing throughout my life, I started to make things with my hands towards a new approach. The result being in the last couple of years to practicing clay visualizing my emotions for the world, nature, life and death in three dimensional forms. |
| My CV | July 2017 – Master of Artistic Research in Royal Academy of Art The Hague – Netherlands . |
| Profile Type | Member |
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