Sara Radstone was born London; she studied at Camberwell College of Arts. She uses oxidised stoneware, hand built and raw-glazed with a textured and sometimes painted surface. Most of Radstone’s work follows some kind of vessel form, the shape is often more reminiscent of a bag than a pot, giving the impression of a soft yielding organic form which may sag and change with time. Many pieces have a body similar to fissured ancient rock, sometimes with disturbing cracks and holes in the skin and a surface pitted and encrusted as if with lichen, or with stripes of coloured clay embedded in it.

Cloth Clay Wood, The British Council 1987

 

Glossary

  • Stoneware

    One of the three major types of pottery, the others being earthenware and porcelain. A buff, gray or brown clay is mixed with other clays and ceramic materials to make a heavy, opaque, highly plastic clay body that is fired at a high temperature - above 1200ºC. It is in between earthenware and porcelain in its character. The term stoneware also refers to the clay body and objects made from it.