Students from the Foundation degree (Fd) in Contemporary Art Practice have been making ceramic flowers as part of the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB).The first year students worked with Rita Floyd making flowers to be part of the Chelsea Flower Show, the work created within College will go in to the final installation at Chelsea.
The students have learned traditional flower making techniques from Rita who has worked in the industry for 40 years. Ceramic flowers are being made by Rita Ford and Jeanette Seabridge, and are formed by hand to create the different shapes and structures for the garden. BCB is aiming to highlight these traditional flower-making skills by finding alternative uses for the flowers,which were once widespread in Stoke but are now manufactured by a single factory, Aynsley China.
The Contemporary Art Practice students will also be using the theme as the starting point for their next project and hope to visit the show in Chelsea to see some of their work in-situ.
The students’ flowers will sit alongside 800 other flowers that Rita and Jeanette have made especially for the installation.
The British Ceramics Biennial is collaborating with The Stoke-on-Trent Garden Partnership garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. BCB is responsible for creating 800 bone china ‘flower-bricks’, coping-stones, and kerb-stones for the garden, called Transformation, together with a dramatic, two metre swag of ceramic flowers.
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