"Boxes of unfulfilled journeys"
Clouds are a constant inspiration in my work. Feeling trapped between the buildings of the city, the clouds offer me a breath of beauty and a break from the stress of everyday life. It’s a dream shot in the pedestrian’s gloom. I always look at them longingly, I think about them a lot, and I am very concerned with conveying the feelings they evoke in me. I try to capture all these qualities of my feelings in clay so that I can recall the same feelings just by looking at the objects and sculptures I create. Serenity, awe, tranquility, clarity, escape, reverie!
The idea of combining the rocks with the clouds was my unfulfilled – for a long time – desire to travel, to visit new places, new “lands”. So I made these “boxes” and put my dreams inside: the rock bubbles, some “notes” about different points of interest, and some larger pieces of rock as a kind of souvenir that I would bring back, literally or metaphorically.
- Composition of four ceramic boxes
- Porcelain, monotype with colorful porcelain
- Serifian rocks and minerals: kneaded in porcelain and added in the glaze
- Firing at 1200C
Antigoni Pantazi
Antigoni Pantazi
Antigoni Pantazi lives and works in Athens, Greece. In 1998, she had her first contact with ceramics. In 2006 she graduated from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (now Cardiff Metropolitan University) with a first-class degree in Ceramics and she was awarded the “Welsh Assembly Government’s First Minister’s Award”. She has also studied conservation of works of art and cultural events organization.
In 2008 she opened her own studio in Ilion, Athens where she creates and shows her work as well as teaching ceramics to adults. She also teaches ceramics to adults at various public and private cultural centers and schools. She was the tutor for ceramics for a decade at the Cultural Centre of Petroupolis.
She has participated in exhibitions and contests in Greece and abroad, among them the European Ceramics Context in Denmark (2010) and UNICUM in Slovenia (2023). Some of her works are included in books about ceramics by the American publications “Lark Books”. She is a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts