by Adam Buick | Jun 7, 2017 | Inspiration, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Exhibiting
by Adam Buick | Sep 17, 2015 | Projects, Firing
by Adam Buick | Jan 7, 2015 | Land Art, Local materials, Votive Jar, Exhibiting
Over the past few years I have been placing tiny Votive Jars out in the landscape as offerings to places that inspire me and hold significance within my work. This is an idea that came out of reading through some of my old Archaeological literature from my time at...
by Adam Buick | Nov 22, 2013 | Local materials, Exhibiting
In April of next year I am having an Exhibition at The New Craftsman, St.Ives. For this Exhibition I wanted to make some pieces with a cornish connection. Cornwall is renowned for its rich natural resources and clays, so it was an exciting opportunity to go and see...
by Adam Buick | Jun 11, 2013 | Jerwood Makers Open, Film & Timelapse, Bells, Land Art, Exhibiting
by Adam Buick | Mar 17, 2013 | Jerwood Makers Open, Bells, Land Art, Exhibiting
I have been selected for this years Jerwood Makers Open, a prestigious commissioning award giving five makers the opportunity to freely develop new ideas central to their individual practice. For some time I have been exploring the concept of veneration, with...
by Adam Buick | Oct 18, 2012 | Firing, Exhibiting
by Adam Buick | May 8, 2012 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Exhibiting
I am very excited that my film ‘Earth to Earth’ is going to be shown at an outdoor event in the centre of Buenos Aires on the 17th of May. Alongside story-telling and poetry, video art will be shown on huge LED screens ordinarily used for advertising. The...
by Adam Buick | Jan 27, 2012 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Making
This is the final section of my Earth to Earth film capturing the aurora borealis. 24th October 2011. Location: Carn Treliwyd, Pembrokeshire, Wales – 51° 54 N 5° 16 W Aspect: Looking North East towards Strumble Head along the North Pembrokeshire...
by Adam Buick | Nov 14, 2011 | Land Art, Research Grant
The starting point for this idea comes from my degree in Archaeology and Anthropology. One strong rhetoric within archaeology is that the placing of standing stones, the burial of the dead and building of monuments all has strong associations with the surrounding...
by Adam Buick | Oct 25, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Making, Land Art, Research Grant
Earth to Earth – the beginning… from Adam Buick on Vimeo. Here is a preview of the time lapse film I have been making to document my Land Art project Earth to Earth. Full version coming soon…
by Adam Buick | Oct 23, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Research Grant
Seven days of waiting and watching every change in the weather and this is what I found on Sunday morning. 20,000 images and the disintegration of the Jar happened in the dead of night, unable to be seen by the camera. The footage is amazing but what an anticlimax to...
by Adam Buick | Oct 21, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Research Grant
What makes ceramics unique as an art form is the transformative process of firing. You make the work and then give it to the fire and hope that during its metamorphosis something beyond your expectation emerges. It is a natural process. No two trees grow the same and...
by Adam Buick | Oct 14, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Exhibiting, Research Grant
For the past two months I have been working on the Earth to Earth project. This is part of my Arts Council of Wales research grant. This time I decided to document the weathering of the Jar using Time Lapse Photography. At first I thought this would be straight...
by Adam Buick | Sep 5, 2011 | Film & Timelapse, Exhibiting, Other artists & collaborations
This autumn, the V&A and Crafts Council will celebrate the role of making in our lives by presenting an eclectic selection of over 100 exquisitely crafted objects. As part of this major exhibition entitled ‘Power of Making’ people from around the world...
by Adam Buick | Jun 22, 2011 | Local materials, Votive Jar, Research Grant
I have used seaweed in my work for some time, laying it directly onto the surface of pots during firing. For years I have been meaning to test its use as a glaze component. Wood ash is commonly used in glazes as is other organic matter, I have only ever seen one...
by Adam Buick | Jun 16, 2011 | Film & Timelapse, Exhibiting
Just over six weeks to make a kiln full of work for this years kiln opening, the main event at my annual open studio.
by Adam Buick | Jun 1, 2011 | Land Art, Local materials, Votive Jar, Research Grant
I have been reading through some of my old Archaeological literature from my time at university and have come across some interesting concepts. One area that particularly caught my interest is the burial or deposit of objects within the landscape by the people of the...
by Adam Buick | May 25, 2011 | Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Research Grant
by Adam Buick | Apr 17, 2011 | Firing, Exhibiting
by Adam Buick | Apr 15, 2011 | Firing, Exhibiting, Other artists & collaborations
Over the past six weeks I have been making a set of new work primarily for the the summer exhibition at The Garden Gallery in Broughton, Hampshire. Run by Rachel Bebb it is a beautiful English garden filled with sculpture from about sixty artists, both...
by Adam Buick | Mar 24, 2011 | Film & Timelapse, Local materials
My brother, photojournalist Greg Rodland Buick, has completed the final edit of a short documentary about my work. I’m really pleased with how it’s turned out. The discipline of having to portray what my work is about in five or six minutes was a very...
by Adam Buick | Mar 17, 2011 | Other artists & collaborations
Phases (for Adam) by Jacqui Thewless Inside the earth, the white clay is full. It is the potter who lifts it up to the librating wheel, gathering emptiness – The interior of the round jar turns dark as a...
by Adam Buick | Mar 15, 2011 | Firing, Land Art
Between the cliffs and the fields lies a stretch of common land, through which runs the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Much of the land is now owned by the National Trust. This stretch of wilderness that can seem like a wild landscape of rock, sea and heath is in fact...
by Adam Buick | Feb 17, 2011 | Land Art, Local materials, Research Grant
I am very excited that I have been awarded a Research Grant by the Arts Council of Wales. It means that I can go to the top of hills to think about my understanding of landscape and how my work fits into it. Here is what I proposed: Continuing with the pure jar form...
by Adam Buick | Feb 11, 2011 | Land Art
by Adam Buick | Feb 10, 2011 | Local materials
We went for a walk down to a nearby cove at the weekend. Sitting at the base of the cliff I noticed a trickle of water running out over the bed rock. On closer inspection the rock seemed to be decomposing. It looked like clay. Clay is decomposed rock particularly...
by Adam Buick | Jan 4, 2011 | Land Art
Caer Bwdy, the source of the beautiful purply sandstone used to build St.Davids Cathedral has always been a place I am drawn to. The scale and colour of the pebbles at the cove are unique. Sketching is not something I do often enough, I think mainly because...
by Adam Buick | Dec 31, 2010 | Other artists & collaborations
We took a trip up into the Preseli hills today to choose a painting by Linda Norris from her gallery in Maenclochog. The road up into the Preselis is very nostalgic for me from the daily school run. Every turn familiar but so rarely driven these days. In the low...
by Adam Buick | Dec 18, 2010 | Exhibiting
After weeks of working towards the previous firing it is wonderful to sit by an open fire and reflect on my work. I have until Tuesday when the exhibition here at Court House ends to think through all my plans for the new...
by Adam Buick | Dec 14, 2010 | Inspiration
Just came across this photograph I took last year. It is the view from the track up to my studio. Some days I hardly notice the sea, others I am mesmerised. I have already forgotten how it looked today, tomorrow will be something new.
by Adam Buick | Dec 13, 2010 | Other artists & collaborations
I have enticed renowned illustrator and writer Jackie Morris across the fields to come and draw on some mugs I made for home. I thought we should go for classic blue and white, I like things to be clean and simple but also it is a technique I have some experience of....
by Adam Buick | Jun 29, 2010 | Earth to Earth
As an artists who claims to be inspired by the landscape I am often critical of myself for not getting out and drawing more strongly on my inspirations. The discipline of spending forty minutes walking through the landscape looking in a meaningful way has been...
by Adam Buick | Jun 10, 2010 | Earth to Earth
Little had changed the next morning, the last remaining structure barely visible amongst the heap. The sea was sublime.
by Adam Buick | Jun 8, 2010 | Earth to Earth
By nine o’clock at night this is all that was left of my Moon Jar. The wind and rain had in a single day reduced the pot to little more than a pile of soggy shards. The foot ring of the Jar was the all that remained. Up there the weather was really wild,...
by Adam Buick | Jun 7, 2010 | Earth to Earth, Making
by Adam Buick | Jun 7, 2010 | Earth to Earth
The anticipation to see what effect the first rain had had on the unfired clay was motivating as I climbed the hill. From afar it was still in its entirety, a sphere against the laden sky. The Jar was wet through on one side, the side that had taken the weather....
by Adam Buick | Jun 5, 2010 | Earth to Earth, Making
Just below the summit of Carn Treliwyd is a field of bluebells. Today as I tramped my way through them each step sent flying a myriad of insects, among them Damselflies and a Wall Brown Butterfly. I took a different route to the summit and came across another line of...
by Adam Buick | Jun 5, 2010 | Earth to Earth
Nearing the top of Carn Treliwyd I found these lines of quartz. Ancient routes through the rocks that shape our landscape. How we use and experience a landscape is of constant interest to me. One of the ways that shapes our experiences is the routes we take. paths...
by Adam Buick | Jun 3, 2010 | Earth to Earth
My second attempt at this project after the previous Jar was taken from the top of Clegyr Boia. A new more remote location this time on top of Carn Treliwyd. I have made a Jar from a blend of local clays, some from the moor below at Waun Llodi. This raw, unfired jar...
by Adam Buick | Sep 21, 2009 | Making
I went at 6am this moring to document my new environmental art project Earth to Earth on Clegyr Boia, but the Jar had Vanished! Who would take a large heavy pot from the top of a hill? Did they think someone was out for a walk with a 20kg pot and just forgot it?...
by Adam Buick | Sep 21, 2009 | Making
Earth to Earth Project – Started Monday the 27th of June 2009 On Monday evening I placed an unfired terracotta Moon Jar on the top of Clegyr Boia. Because it has not been fired it is very fragile and susceptible to the weather. The concept is to leave it in...