Evan Daggert
Three Dimensional Design BA Hons
Grays School of Art Robert Gordon University
Specialisms: Ceramics / Film / Photography
Location: Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Evan Daggert
First Name: Evan
Last Name: Daggert
Specialisms: Ceramics / Film / Photography
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My Location: Aberdeen, United Kingdom
University / College: Grays School of Art Robert Gordon University
Course / Program Title: Three Dimensional Design BA Hons
About
As a Ceramicist, I create mostly wheel thrown forms, my focus centres on experimentation of wild clay and some alternative firing methods in decoration of these vessels.
Honouring the natural characteristics of a material is important to me as I strive to work with and emulate nature.
I explore wild clay both as a body or a glaze ingredient, resulting in new colours and textures all from one place. These glazes hold the characteristics of the place the clay is from, they speak the visual language of their landscape; the vessels look as though they belong back in the woods.
A place. A moment of time. Immortalised by earth and fire.
I enjoy using video and sound within my practice. It allows me to express the meaning and process behind my work and the origins of the material; helping not only to view a place, but become connected and immersed in it.
My most recent project used clay from Dufftown in Speyside, local to where I am from.
To achieve multiple firing methods, I have both investigated and built different wood test kilns, used electric and gas firings, as well as occasional raku.
I operate using the name Aardglen meaning 'earth valley' - a combination of Dutch and Scottish words, reflecting my own heritage. Nature not only inspires my work but often takes part in creating, decorating and completing it.
A project focused on using a local and meaningful material, wild clay. By decorating large thrown vessels or printed landscape tiles, I am capturing a place, and encounter, a moment in time. Through fire they become a tangible photograph. My aim with these works is to provide an opportunity to connect with a place and a material. As part of my material exploration I used both electric and gas kilns, as well as building a small wood kiln to fire some of the pots. The different atmospheres show new reactions and textures from the glazes. Nature does not decorate these works. It completes them as my collaborator. Alongside the physical forms I use video and sound, projected onto material telling hidden stories and methods. This allows a way to become more emersed in the place itself.
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