Lisa Hammond has for the last 25 years been committed to making and teaching SALT and SODA vapour glaze studio pottery. In 1994 Lisa set up her present studio, a converted railway station in Greenwich London.

Her work embraces an extensive range of thrown functional ware for the preparation and cooking of food, and to serve and eat from. Lisa feels very strongly that the work should be used as part of our every day lives. She also produces a range of individual work that is fundamentally functional, but challenges the user to be more inventive as to its use. The forms are strong fluid and unfussy, and aim to preserve the soft plasticity of the clay. Work is often altered to achieve the final form soft on the wheel, using this reshaping as a form of simple decoration. ''Pinched holes'' and ''belly buttons'' suggests handholds, and references to medieval pots.

Over the past 20 years Lisa has experimented with clay, slips, soda glaze and kiln firing, to produce a seemingly endless palate of colour and surface.

Lisa fires her 90cu,ft gas trolley kiln some 12 times a year to produce pots that are each individually touched by the soda as it passes through the kiln, carried on the flame to produce unique and distinctive pots. Fascinated with pots from a young age, Lisa consolidated her training at a studio pottery course in Kent. She then set up her first studio in Greenwich in 1980 at the same time Lecturing for some 13 years at Goldsmiths College, London University. Teaching throwing, and kiln building, with other committed staff and students, Lisa pioneered the use of soda glaze in the UK.

Lisa has Lectured and exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad, more recently in Japan. Over the years Lisa has trained many students both in collages and at the studio in the practice of soda glaze.

In the past 5 years Lisa Has visited , worked , Lectured and Regularly Exhibited in Japan. Inspired by Mino Ware Pots, Lisa is now working with Shino Glaze along side her soda glaze work


Grants and Awards:
March 2001 Craft Council Research Trip Grant to Japan
March 2002 Crafts Council Research Trip Grant to Japan
Peers Award Art in Clay, Hatfield House 2003
Crafts council award Japan 2005
Solo exhibition award 2005

Associations:
Craftsman Potters Association - Professional Member 1998
Craftsman Potters Association - Voted a Fellow 2002
Craftsman Potters Association - Voted on to the council

Some Further Reading:
Featured Artist:
'Ceramic Review' Jan/Feb 1999 Issue 175
'Counrty Homes & Interiors' (Country Artist) Nov 2002
'Ceramics in Society' (The New Artisan Potter) Spring 2003 Issue 51
'Ceramic Review' cover and article Nov/Dec 2006

Featured Articles:
'Global Ceramic Review' Jan 1999
'Ceramic Review' (Potters Apprentice) May/June 1999 Issue 192 (www.ceramicreview.com)
CPA New Letter - Article "Getting Started" Jan/Feb 2003
'Ceramics in Society' - Article "Functional Potters"

Books:
'The Complete Practical Potter' (Chapter on Soda Glaze and Firing) - Lorenz Books 1999
Crafts Council Guide to British Studio Ceramics 2000
Below the salt, Portsmouth/ Nottingham Museum 2000
Pots in the Kitchen (Josie Walter) - Crowood Press 2002
Phil Rogers ('Salt Glazing') - A&C Black 2002
Salt-glaze Ceramics (Rosemary Cochrane) - Crowood Press 2002

Goldmark Gallery Catalogue for Solo Exhibition Oct - Nov 2006
available £10 from www.modernpots.com

Articles to Download
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