Meredith Adams- Ceramicist

How have you remained creative during lockdown?

Lockdown zapped all my creative energy and I’ve been apprehensive to make again after a huge dry spell of motivation.  My friends have also felt the same so we started an art club. Each week one of us sets a brief such as (re-imagine a tarot card of your choice, re-design a book cover of your choice etc..) and then instead of showing each other we post what we make to them, this way we all get a new piece of art and each time it felt like a gift! The deadline of art cub forced us to use our creativity.

Has your creative practice changed at all during lock down?

Yes, my studio had to be closed so I could not make any ceramics or pottery. I don’t really have the space at home and even if I tried, I now have no where to fire anything. My favourite and usually only way to create things is to build and sculpt so because this has been difficult, I have tried to move my pots onto paper. I haven’t had any paints, so I have been working on collages ripped up from old magazines. This has allowed me to still study the shape of pottery and dream up new vessel shapes to create when my studio reopen

Where have you been able to get your inspiration from during lockdown?

Grayson Perrys Art Club on Channel 4 !! I was so nervous to make anything again in case I had forgotten what to do or what I came up with was just rubbish and I would be disheartened and NEVER MAKE AGAIN but he taught me to be vulnerable and just see what happens and it doesn’t matter what comes out at the end, at least it’s SOMETHING.

Do you have any advice for those people that are getting creative at home during this time?

Be vulnerable, just put what is in your head onto paper, no need to compare your art to someone else’s art, everybody is different. If you hate it ? throw it away! But you might learn or feel or love something in the process!

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