• Introduction • Tableware and other Functional Forms • Playing on Function • Vessel Forms • Sculptural Forms • Abstract Sculptural Forms • Different Ways of Working

Discussing the works in the Ceramic Contemporaries 4 exhibition Knowledge and Understanding: Playing on function   Jeremy Nichols Paul McAllister Yardena Kuralkar Trevor Hogan   Some makers play on the notion of function - in other words, their works are unlikely to be used in the traditional, everyday sense, but we bring an understanding of traditional use to our appreciation of them. Works like these might lead us to consider the nature of function itself. Is there such as thing as ‘aesthetic function’? Do human beings have a need to display objects? If we look around our own homes, we are likely to encounter items that seem to serve no useful function. What are they? Why are they there? These are themes that can engage the interest of pupils at all key stages.