“In the hands of experienced potters like Delphine Niez and Donve Branch, the “accident” factor becomes a tool for experimentation and the expansion of their oeuvre. Both artists capitalise on the alchemy of what happens when surface accidents occur during firing. Modern ceramics have moved a long way from their originally utilitarian function and the Bauhaus dictum that “form follows function”.
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