Raw Materials

June 12, 2023

Adrienne Pitts, a talented local art director and photographer, has launched ALP Ceramics with her first collection, Concrete Skies.

“In the mid-2000s, I lived in the London area of Barbican. An icon of Brutalist architecture, I’d often run my hands over the rough concrete walls of the buildings on my way home. I found the symmetry and straightforward functionality of the architecture so pleasing and, when experimenting with clays back here in Aotearoa New Zealand, I was thrilled to find a clay that took me back to those rough, textured edifices. All these items are hand thrown on a pottery wheel using grey stoneware clay which, when fired, has the look and feel of concrete.”

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