Extra Large Axe Head, 2019

  • Celadon with ashing & shells • Unsigned • 68.5cm x 12.5cm
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    Svend Bayer
    Svend Bayer
    Danish , 1946
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    Born in Uganda in 1946 to Danish parents, Svend Bayer spent his childhood in Tanganyika. It was during his time at university that Bayer discovered pottery, and a gift from his girlfriend of Bernard Leach’s A Potters Book introduced him to the pots of Michael Cardew. On leaving university Bayer wrote to Cardew, and after being invited for an interview, was taken on.

    Bayer took inspiration from the village potteries in Southeast Asia, streamlining their practices and using his focus and determination to produce pots at high speed to fill his huge kiln. His work is held in major collections worldwide. He has received the John Ruskin award, held workshops all over the world and had residencies in America & Australia.
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    Celadon glaze with ashing & shells. Mounted in a wooden base.

    From Svend's final exhibition.

    Excerpt from Svend's introduction to his Final Exhibiton catalogue.

    'The more sculptural forms are based on stone age axes from both Denmark and Britain. When I was 7 and my family was on home leave from Africa, my sister and I stayed with two elderly unmarried female cousins of my father. One had been a physiotherapist to Christian the 10th , the other a sculptress who, as a young woman, had posed in all her glory as Gefion for the Gefion Fountain near Langelinje in Copenhagen. Their house was full of treasures , including a complete human skeleton whose cranium I was allowed to keep by my bed, provided it was  kept hidden in a brown paper bag during daylight hours so as not  to frighten the maid. They also had a fine collection of stone age implements unearthed by their amateur archaeologist father. When we left to return to Africa they gave me ten of those tools, the most precious of which was a large polished flint axe. They are my most prized possessions.'

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    • MEDIUM Stoneware
    • DATE OF WORK 2019
    • FIRING Wood
    • CERAMIC STYLE Sculptural
    • HEIGHT (CM) 68.5
    • WIDTH (CM) 12.5
    Extra Large Axe Head
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