Catherine Ash
Catherine Ash and Driaan Claassen will be in residence from 28 October – 27 November 2022. During their residency, they will continue their ongoing collaboration, making use of the electric and wood-fired kilns at the Centre to produce a series of sculptures made out of ceramics, glass, and wood, that grapple with mental health. Their proposed works foregrounds the use of wood as a mediator between glass and ceramics, making reference to the elements as a way to both ground and connect the internal and external, physical and mental, aspects of the human anatomy; a connection which is also apparent in the case of trees and neurons that take on a Lichtenberg or dendritic-type pattern.
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Catherine Ash is a Cape Town based artist and ceramicist. She received her BFA from Rhodes University in 2012 specialising in sculpture. Since then, she has thrown herself into the exploration of clay and ceramics as her main medium of interest. Her style predominantly consists of simple shapes and forms with hand-painted contemporary pattern designs, which her popular homeware brand, Ash Ceramics, is well known for.
The alchemy of turning clay into stone has captivated and pushed her to explore different firing techniques and how different elements and oxides react under high temperatures and pressure. This has led her work away from functional home pieces to more explorative sculptural forms. Currently, Ash is expanding her sculptural language to encompass new materials such as glass, copper, and painting. -
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