Emily Raftery & Kit Rennie
weathering 1:1
Medium: FP-100c Polaroid photograph printed on Hahnemuhle 310gsm fine art paper. Red raku and white stoneware clays.
Dimensions: Photos approx 20 x 16 cm / Clay approx 15 x 11 x 7.5cm
Price: $450 pair or $1,200 for all 3 sets
weathering 1:2
Medium: FP-100c Polaroid photograph printed on Hahnemuhle 310gsm fine art paper. Stoneware with oxides.
Dimensions: Photos approx 20 x 16 cm / Clay approx 15 x 11 x 7.5cm
Price: $450 pair or $1,200 for all 3 sets
weathering 1:3
Medium: FP-100c Polaroid photograph printed on Hahnemuhle 310gsm fine art paper. Red raku and white stoneware clays.
Dimensions: Photos approx 20 x 16 cm / Clay approx 15 x 11 x 7.5cm
Price: $450 pair or $1,200 for all 3 sets
About the work
We opened up a conversation between our two mediums, and the approaches to each piece of art that was created. We share a common interest in texture, form, and invoking atmospheric feeling within our work, and we used this quite literally also in the processes applied. The works bounce back and forth between each other, the ceramics a visual response to each Polaroid photograph.
The FP-100c Polaroid process has three stages to its creation. The initial polaroid is produced, then when the back is peeled apart from the polaroid a relief is created, which then was bleached to create a negative to be scanned.
Mimicking this process, Kit worked in three stages also. Framing the work in a single base structure being a block, then working on each piece with individual treatments relating to the corresponding photograph provided.
All exhibited works were made in 2023.
Artist Bios
Emily Raftery has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and has worked professionally as a photographer for 18 years. She has won multiple awards both locally and internationally in her professional field, and also during this time has managed to maintain her art practice, where she works primarily with film, and has exhibited in group shows around Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Kit Rennie has a BA in ‘Model Making for Design & Media’, and has recently rekindled a childhood love of sculpture and ceramics. He is currently working towards a Diploma in Ceramics and has a relentless drive to create work that pushes the technical challenges of the medium.