Allison Weightman - Ceramics

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About Allison Weightman - Ceramics

Personal Statement

Primarily working in hand-built Raku fired vessel forms, Allison lives and works on the North West Coast of Scotland.

What makes her work unique is that before putting her ceramics in to the kiln, she shoots the un-fired clay with a 12 bore shotgun. This technique produces an effect that is impossible to recreate in any other way.

Since being shot in the leg as a child Allison has been interested in exploring the destructive force of gun-fire, both physically and emotionally. Her pieces show the damage a gun can cause on something that has taken time, effort and creativity to make, drawing parallels with the effects of gun crime and war on the lives of innocent people.

Georgina Coburn said of her work - "Though a shotgun may seem a controversial, creative instrument; it is the method by which many chose to express themselves throughout the world. In the hands of the artist it is used in full knowledge, a process balanced on the edge of the human capacity for creation and destruction"

Year Established: January 1988