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Articles> Danielle Spelman
A long, thin, starkly-lit garage on the outskirts of Lowestoft in Suffolk
may seem an unlikely place to stumble across fresh new art. Yet, precisely
such a space has given rise to a collection of innovative slip cast ceramics
sufficiently exciting to catch the eye of international design company, Paul
Smith.
This Spring the company will take delivery of Suffolk-born Danielle Spelman’s
slip cast forms, placing them for sale in Paul Smith’s London stores
where they will retail from £125. For Danielle, the Paul Smith contract
is an important milestone. Ceramics is Danielle’s second career –
she originally trained as a nursery teacher – and a year after graduating
from Lowestoft College with a first class honours degree in Design Crafts,
she knows she definitely wants to pursue a new career as an artist.
Paul Smith, with its focus on design, fits in beautifully with her ambitions.
Danielle leaves little to chance. Meet this feisty woman and it soon becomes
clear that every aspect of the planning and creation process is researched
and refined. Often staying up late into the night in her garage studio, she
works with unwavering precision to produce slip cast forms that satisfy not
just Paul Smith’s, but more importantly her own, exacting standards.
The result is a collection of ceramic art that is not only sexy and contemporary,
but also beautifully crafted.
‘This precision must not,’ she says, ‘be confused with repeatability.’
Danielle doesn’t seek the perfection that comes with being able to reproduce
the same piece ad infinitum. Far from it. Each of her pieces is unique and,
she insists, will never be duplicated....
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