Contemporary South African Ceramics

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Strauss & Co is proud to announce a focus on contemporary South African ceramics in its NORTH/SOUTH Live Virtual Auction, 8-11 November 2020. A vital medium with a rich history, Strauss & Co has devoted an entire session to showcasing the best examples of South African ceramics in a session titled New Collector.

Here, Strauss & Co Senior Art Specialist Wilhelm van Rensburg discusses some highlights featured in the ceramic session.

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Auction details:
8-11 November 2020
NORTH/SOUTH Live Virtual Auction
Modern and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Fine Wine

Wine: Sunday 8 November 2020 at 11:00am
Decorative Arts: 9 November 2020 at 10:00am and 2:00pm
Tasso Foundation Collection: 9 November 2020 at 7:00pm
Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art: 10 & 11 November 2020
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Made in Africa: South Africa ceramics

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For 34 years, Ardmore studios has crafted away original ceramics that have provided income to feed many families in KwaZulu-Natal province, #SouthAfrica. Trained by Ardmore’s founder Feé Halsted, 80 painters and sculptors transform African art into ornamental pieces. Items have been sold by Christie’s and Sotheby’s and since branching out into bespoke furniture, wallpaper and tableware; luxury French brand Hermès has collaborated with Ardmore. Despite its international success, it has remained true to its roots, trained and developed local artists, as well as caring for a community hit hard by HIV/AIDS. Today this studio is an institution in South Africa and continues to shape and change people’s lives.

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Earth and Fire: Anasazi Style Pottery

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Watch artist and primitive potter Kelly Magleby learn about and make Anasazi style pottery. Kelly went into the backcountry of Southern Utah with a knife and a buckskin to try to learn about Anasazi Pottery by doing it the way the Anasazi did it. "Earth and Fire" is a documentary poem about a passionate artist. Funded by Primitive Found (.org) Music by Jason Shaw @ audionautix.com Check out Kelly's art at anasazipottery.net This the 1st video of 2016 for The Talking Fly short documentary project by filmmaker Steve Olpin, Enjoy!
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Emergence of Contemporary South African Ceramics

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Strauss & Co Art Specialist Wilhelm van Rensburg discusses the emergence of South African Contemporary ceramics. He is joined by special guest ceramicists: Ann Marais, Katherine Glenday, Eugene Hön, John Newdigate and Retief van Wyk, who all have ceramics on offer in the NORTH/SOUTH Live Virtual Auction.
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Auction details:
8-11 November 2020
NORTH/SOUTH Live Virtual Auction
Modern and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Fine Wine

Wine: Sunday 8 November 2020 at 11:00am
Decorative Arts: 9 November 2020 at 10:00am and 2:00pm
Tasso Foundation Collection: 9 November 2020 at 7:00pm
Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art: 10 & 11 November 2020

Learn Corrugated Pottery From Master Potter John Olsen

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Master Potter John Olsen has been making Anasazi replica pottery for longer than I have been alive. He is well known as the master of corrugated pottery. In this video he talks about how he became a potter and teaches how to make authentic Anasazi corrugated pottery from his home in Boulder, Utah.

John often teaches pottery with Kelly Magleby, her workshops are listed here

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Symbols found on the prehistoric Southwest Anasazi Pottery of the U.S. from A.D. 1300-1400

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Symbols found on the Prehistoric Southwest Pottery from A.D. 1300-1400 including the White Mountain Redwares and Salado Polychromes. Examining the symbols found on the prehistoric pottery of the Southwestern United States with ceramic representations of clouds, thunderbirds, clan symbols, marriage, war, the Milky Way etc.

Presented by James Cunkle: archaeologist and author of "Talking Pots", "Treasures of Time", "Mimbres Mythology", "Stone Magic" and more.

music by James Cunkle and Carlos Niki.

How to Make Primitive Pottery

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Follow me as I guide you through the whole process of making primitive pottery, some of my other videos show more details on parts of the process but this video shows the entire process of creating primitive pottery. Please post questions below and I will answer.

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