DIA120xH100mm, Hong Kong
Metallic washed and Glazed Stoneware
Planter Bowl
POTTERY ART BY CHRIS LO
MOUNTAIN FOLKCRAFT
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DIA170xH240mm, Hong Kong
Metallic washed
White glazed
Stoneware teapot
with
handmade bamboo handle
POTTERY ART BY CHRIS LO
MOUNTAIN FOLKCRAFT
We are honored to have a series of work by ceramic artist Chris Lo for Mountain Folkcraft.
Chris Lo is a local ceramic artist. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1990. Chris has been specializing in ceramics since 1993. Three years later, he founded Cobo Ceramic Workshop and continue to explore the relationship among man, time and space which are well expressed in his work. Chris has participated in numerous exhibitions in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan and Europe. His works are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the National Museum of Chinese History (Beijing) and private collectors.
Catch the Collide / Converge exhibition to see Chris and other’s ceramic sculpture before it closes on the thur the 28th.
Watch this space for the following days to see the collection!
DIA130xH50mm, Hong Kong
White slip-glaze wash finish on black clay from Shigaraki Japan.
Inner side is glazed with a special crackle glaze named 浮花.
COBOxSOILxMOUNTAIN FOLKCRAFT
Come to see the items before the event ends at the end of March!
DIA90xH170mm, Hong Kong
For the Something Old Something New joint event, a bottle with lid in real gold and blue barium glaze finish (not food safe). Wheel thrown in one piece, lid is then cut from the body. Gold is applied after the stoneware firing, refire to a lower temperature of 750 C.
This dream like bottle made me think of Calvino’s Invisible City.
DIA160xH100mm, Hong Kong
Bronze finished round vase, thrown on wheel, texturized body with metallic wash finish.
The bronze like glaze effect come from a mixture of copper oxide, manganese dioxide, and iron oxide.
DIA100xH180mm, Hong Kong
Thrown and cut to get the round shape with a good fitting lid. Blue stoneware glazed first, then a few dash of real gold luster is added, fired at a low temperature at 750 C.
Then you have a bottle of blue magic.
Here is an interview of Chris about his love for pottery.
W4xL9mm, Hong Kong
These series of unique spoons are an exploration by the artist of Japanese clay and glaze materials. Fired in gas kiln (1200C) in Shigaraki, Japan.
DIA90xH90mm, Hong Kong
This round bottle is made by Chris Lo, founder of the Cobo Ceramic Workshop.
The clay body uses a groggy clay which can stand for the thermo shock created during the raku post reduction firing. The matte black carbonized surfaces and black crackles are the main characteristic of raku firing. The round shape gives a stable and strong body structure to avoid cracking.
Raku was started in Japan by Chojiro in the 16th century; unlike other type of pottery firing where they are loaded into a cold kiln with temperature rinsing slowly, taking anywhere from 8-24 hrs or longer, when the designated temperature is reached the heating is turned off and the contents allow to naturally cool down until they can be removed with bare hands. With raku, the pottery are loaded into a hot kiln where the desired temperature is reached in a much short time, can be as short as 15 mins). The pottery is then removed from the hot kiln with the aids of tongs and put into a container of combustible material (sawdust, leaves, etc) to be smoked, the surface is carbonized reacting with the glaze and the clay giving the unique matt black unglazed clay and crackled glazed surfaces.
Continuing with the Something Old Something New theme and our collaboration with Soil, we now have another venture:
Cobo X Soil X Mountain Folkcraft
“Throw A Party!”
A selection of pottery works produced from the studio (Chris, King + the students) will be available at Mountain Folkcraft. All the works are handmade and unique.
Cobo Ceramic Workshop is a pottery workshop founded in 1995 by Chris Lo, together with King Fung regular classes are held as well as commissioned work for corporation and individual clients.
This is the workshop I attend my classes and personally I think it is the perfect place to learn pottery, love it!
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