The find-design directory focuses only on South African Design, nothing else. We aim to filter our listings to provide a showcase of the best SA Design. Grab a category and get your clapping hands warmed up.
Lisa Firer Featured
core business
Porcelain Ceramics
mobile
+27 (0)82 5587106
services
Texture, layering, light, embellishment, translucency, fragility, beauty, diversity, colour, pattern, design…my aesthetic passions and explorations.
About
I first picked up clay in 1990 and it’s been a love affair ever since! From low-fired earthenware through to high-fired porcelain... from bright colour to a white palette and back again... I’m living and working in Cape Town, South Africa and am blessed to be part of a rich and vibrant community of designers, artists, makers and crafters.Porcelain has been my particular fascination since 2000. In my work, the use of this clay is a metaphor for human existence. Porcelain is at the same time, durable and resilient and yet also able to be smashed or cracked. There is something embodied in this material about the paradox of being a human being. The combination of incredible strength and resilience and at the same time, vulnerability and uncertainty.
I am really committed to the hand-made craft object in this world of mass production and feel that the mark and energy of the maker are transferred into the work, especially with something as tactile as clay. My intention as I work, is to transfer some of the qualities of light, beauty, gentleness and the opening of the heart and spirit into my work.
Exhibitions
- 2002 Northern Lights: St. Georges Cathedral, Cape Town
- 2003 Continuum: Irma Stern museum, Cape Town
- 2005 Finding You: AVA, Cape Town
- 2006 Design Indaba: Cape Town
- 2006 North meets South: The Potter's Shop, Kalkbay
- 2007 Enchanted: What if the World
- 2007 Boezaart Baumeister: Stellenbosch
- 2008 Design Indaba: Cape Town
- 2008 Feast
Reviews (0)
