Karen Irwin Ceramic Art

Karen Irwin Ceramic Art Handbuilt and slipcast clay comes to life in functional work and narrative sculpture.

Held off sharing this piece until the awards were announced. This is "Burden" a piece about emotional burdens. Stoneware...
10/04/2026

Held off sharing this piece until the awards were announced. This is "Burden" a piece about emotional burdens. Stoneware, oxides, underglaze and black glaze

27/11/2025

These 100 % anatomically incorrect sullies are now at The Black Shed in Waipu.

23/10/2025

Always behind these days lol. Posting a bit low on list of priorities maybe I will do better next year 🤣
Second video in comments

One of the pieces I have in the Quarry Arts Staff Present and Past Exhibition."If we are really all just bricks in a wal...
04/09/2025

One of the pieces I have in the Quarry Arts Staff Present and Past Exhibition.
"If we are really all just bricks in a wall you better make that fu***ng brick shine"

I'm not very good at keeping up to date sorry. Busy with the annual woodfiring at quarry arts centre. Got some nice piec...
12/07/2025

I'm not very good at keeping up to date sorry. Busy with the annual woodfiring at quarry arts centre. Got some nice pieces out this time.
Looking forward to next year.

Some interesting pieces cropping up lol. I love experimenting. Fragile - like a bombStory of a mountain.Woodland Territo...
04/05/2025

Some interesting pieces cropping up lol. I love experimenting.
Fragile - like a bomb
Story of a mountain.
Woodland Territorial Forces
Shrine for a Scribe

11/12/2024

My three favourites from this batch. Once these last ones are sold either from Quarry or Burning Issues that will be it for a while. I tried moving away from functional items last year but wasn't quite ready.
This time I have absolutely decimated my studio and nothing remains. No slip, no glaze, no clay, no transfers, no decals, no texture tools , no cutters etc etc.
A brand new start come New Year and this time I'm ready.

Quietly moving along with new ideas. In the meantime the hands keep busy with trialling different methods of image trans...
01/11/2024

Quietly moving along with new ideas. In the meantime the hands keep busy with trialling different methods of image transfer and new motifs on my tumblers.

Prepping for the next woodfiring
05/10/2024

Prepping for the next woodfiring

I've had trouble finding a rhythm in my work this year. Consequently there have been a few outliers in my work. I've qui...
30/08/2024

I've had trouble finding a rhythm in my work this year. Consequently there have been a few outliers in my work. I've quite liked them so maybe that's a signal to change course we will see.
Planning isn't my strong point but thinking I can do.

These are some of the pieces headed out this week.

Drunken Monkey Theory, tells us that man had a leg up in evolution because our monkey ancestors were able to locate more...
06/08/2024

Drunken Monkey Theory, tells us that man had a leg up in evolution because our monkey ancestors were able to locate more food by the smell of fermenting fruit. Says something about our love of alchohol maybe?

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