Kate Malone

Kate Malone is a British potter who was born March 30th, 1959. She is also a judge on a show on BBC2 called The Great Pottery Throw Down. Malone is widely know fr her bright glazes and her large sculptures.



Examples of Malone's wok:

Much of Malone's works are inspired by nature and natural forms and this is clear because you can see that many of her vessels are covered in seeds or are in the shape of a fruit. Within my research I found out that "there are two most popular glazes that you can find on the work of Kate Malone. You can see both in crystalline stoneware and ‘pebbled’ earthenware."  This gives the pieces a shiny but distorted look.

I really like Malone's style of work because it really goes along with my thinking which is that things do not have to be structured to be beautiful. Her crystal glazes also help to create the essence of beauty through distortion. I also really like her way of making natural forms because I feel that it shows that she has not lost her touch with earth. I especially like the fish in the lake sculpture because it not only displays the beauty of nature but it also places her work among nature itself and it sort of creates that bond between her work and nature itself.

I would really like to create something which has been inspired by her because I feel as though me and Malone have a similar way of thinking and I would really like to see how I would go about trying to imitate nature in creating something in a structured way in it's own sense but also in the way where it cant be made in exactly the same way because no two things in nature have the exact same structure.