Retrospective  

Level 2 | 2007 - 2009

Jos Stumpe

The Painted Vessel | Research

The Painted Vessel | Research

The Painted Vessel | Development

Juan Gris: Dish of Fruit (1916) Version 1 Version 2

The Painted Vessel | Finished Project

Familiar | elegant shape, a twist, smooth texture, families of objects, no ornaments, porcelain, black, white, blue and earth tones

Alien | highly decorative, robust shapes, ornamental addition, very colourful, traditional

Throwing your voice | Research

This project forced me to practice throwing for the !rst time in my life. I tried very hard ....

Throwing your voice | Development

... something nice ... something ugly

And a year later, after practicing once a week, my Japanese teacher could approve of these cups

Throwing your voice | Finished Project

Homo metropolitanus From childhood on I feel like a ‘Homo metropolitanus’.You are where you live. And for me that’s the city. As long as I can remember I have found my way in the big cities. The metropolis is my habitat. I always feel at home in big cities with a river and/or a harbour. With architectural icons, like cathedrals, museums, old and new, with their speci!c cultural atmosphere, colours, people. In the Netherlands I found this habitat in Amsterdam. Outside the Netherlands I found the same sense of connectivity with cities like Rome, Paris, London, New York, Barcelona, Berlin, Moscow, Cape Town. Work,words,water The greatest part of my working life I have operated as an highly independent individual professional, operating in networks, hardly ever part of an organisation. Private life and business were mixed all the time, until I married and we got our son seven years ago. Family and private life, Joshua’s school, were in this period more important.This intermezzo created space for exploring something different:working with clay. In my professional life words are my core business. In this sense my identi!cation with Dutch language has been some sort of a discomfort for me. My mother tongue kept me in Amsterdam. Nowadays it would have been much easier to live in a different place, with the help of worldwide communications.Water is an important theme in my work as well is the culture of Holland.

Our identity is our discomfort? | Research

How to express my identity in ceramics? Some key words: architecture, water, organic shapes, rough texture, vertical and horizontal, arti!cial and nature, movement, structure, words, different cultures

Our identity is our discomfort? | Development

Our identity is our discomfort? | Finished Project

Three is a Family

Presenting Identity | Research

From Business Cards presenting my identity as professional text editor

1996 - 2000

2000 - now

To a Business Card presenting my identity as a ceramist using my logo

Presenting Identity | Development

Presenting Identity | Finished Project  

The Potter’s Dozen & The Medium is the Message | Research

Holland Water Land 1000- 2100 Because the subject of my presentation for H&C is Delftware in the 17th Century, I decided to introduce myself into the world of surface and decorating techniques that go back to the glorious days of Dutch porcelain or Delftware: tin glaze, majolica, transfers, messages on plates.

I also decided to combine The Potter’s Dozen and The Medium is the Message into one narrative: the narrative of Holland Water Land 1000 - 2100.

Experiments with majolica on tin glaze

Experiments with different clay bodies Tin glaze on black clay bodies

The Potter’s Dozen & The Medium is the Message | Development

Narratives with shape and decoration Narratives with text and illustration Tulips on tiles

‘Het hoofd boven water houden’ = ‘Keep one’s head above water’ Bottles with a long neck, transfer on tin glaze

‘Geen zee gaat ons te hoog’ = ‘He is game for anything’ Porcelain ‘waves’ with tin glaze and majolica

Four Plates with text and illustration, representing four periods in the history of Holland Water Land

Holland 2100: ‘Na ons de zondvloed’ = ‘After us the deluge’. Holland #ooded by the sea because of climate change.

The Potter’s Dozen & The Medium is the Message | Finished Project

Holland Water Land 1000 - 2100

Mind the Gap 1

Reintroduce the Piggy Bank as a much saver way to save money than the Bank

Does Ceramics have a Future?

‘We can already observe that interesting ideas in the art colleges are not maturing into professional product due to a shortage of technical know-how and skills. How cn we ensure that knowledge about casting, constructing, f

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ring, compiling the glazes can be retained; can we be able to evolve?’ (Ank Trumpie)

A Second Life for Ceramic Wall Pieces

In Holland they are breaking down buildings from the f

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fties. This is a period when ceramic wall pieces were en vogue.

Now the question is: what to do with these wall pieces? De-str oy them? Or give them a second life?

Revival of the Piggy Bank

In a world where the people have lost there trust in banks, there is momentum to bring to life the old tradition of the Piggy Bank. A book about the history of the Piggy Bank can introduce a gene-ration brough t up with virtual mone y into the use of the Piggy Bank.

The Zen of Clay

In Buddhism one has to expe-rience complete darkness in order to become enlightened . In western society we don’t have complete darkness anymore. A clay body that completely covers one’s body can crea te the expe-rience of darkness.

Keep your head cool. Handy when climate change makes sum-mers really hot. It can be made to f

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t. It can get a personal touch with decoration on demand. It can express a group identity.

Develop a marketing concept that enables to preserve technical know-how and skills at European level. My presupposition is that the European level is the only ef f ic

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nt scale to maintain expertise and facilities.

Reintroduce the Piggy Bank as a much saver way to save money than the Bank

Does Ceramics have a Future?

‘We can already observe that interesting ideas in the art colleges are not maturing into professional product due to a shortage of technical know-how and skills. How cn we ensure that knowledge about casting, constructing, f

i

ring, compiling the glazes can be retained; can we be able to evolve?’ (Ank Trumpie)

A Second Life for Ceramic Wall Pieces

In Holland they are breaking down buildings from the f

i

fties. This is a period when ceramic wall pieces were en vogue.

Now the question is: what to do with these wall pieces? De-str oy them? Or give them a second life?

Revival of the Piggy Bank

In a world where the people have lost there trust in banks, there is momentum to bring to life the old tradition of the Piggy Bank. A book about the history of the Piggy Bank can introduce a gene-ration brough t up with virtual mone y into the use of the Piggy Bank.

The Zen of Clay

In Buddhism one has to expe-rience complete darkness in order to become enlightened . In western society we don’t have complete darkness anymore. A clay body that completely covers one’s body can crea te the expe-rience of darkness.

Keep your head cool. Handy when climate change makes sum-mers really hot. It can be made to f

i

t. It can get a personal touch with decoration on demand. It can express a group identity.

Develop a marketing concept that enables to preserve technical know-how and skills at European level. My presupposition is that the European level is the only ef f ic

ie

nt scale to maintain expertise and facilities.

Mind the Gap 2

Mind the Gap 3