Leach Pottery Beaker Project
This early PhD project involved returning to the research of Dr Katie Bunnell’s Bunny Beakers. The aim was to use the project to familiarise myself with digital-ceramic making, especially in the context of the Leach Pottery. I started working with some of Bernard Leach’s New Zealand sketches as the basis for the decoration and used Adobe Illustrator, Rhino 3d, laser cutters, a 3 axis milling machine, plaster lathes, slip blunger and the Leach Pottery’s soda kilns to make the work. Materials used included acrylic, silicon, milling board, plaster, and formulating a casting slip based on the Leach throwing body.