Contemporary Ceramics display
features work that changed the craft to an art

By Alidė Kohlhaas

Every art form has special attributes that attract individuals to it. And so it is with ceramic art. While it has form and colour, what often attracts people to this art is a deeper sense of connection to the visceral experience of shaping a lump of clay – soil – into both functional and decorative objects. Paintings and sculpture often have a monumental impact on the viewer, and at the same time, they are distant and unapproachable. Not ceramic objects. They have, for the most part, an intimate nature; something we can hold, something we live with daily, whether it is in the form of a jug, a plate, a vase or a figurine on a shelf.