Bill Brown, “24 (22:00)”, 2005, Stoneware with silk screen enamel transfer, 45 x 30cm

I’ve added a new album of work by Bill Brown, who is head of Ceramic Design at the Glasgow School of Art. Click here to view the images.

Although many single images of his work, spanning a lengthy career, can be found in various books, catalogs and international collections, I believe that this is a unique collection of images. It encompasses at least a decade of creative practice and he has very kindly allowed me to make them available online to share with everyone.

For me, Bill Brown’s work is an expression of a wonderful quirky sense of humour and intelligent observation of contemporary life, culture, the media and advertising, coupled with a mastery of industrial ceramic production techniques which include mould making and printing on clay.

The silk screen enamel printing technique used in his work is known as decals in some other parts of the world. Bill Brown screen prints his own full colour decals using on glaze enamels, after putting his photographs and graphic works through a digital colour separation process in Photoshop.

The piece displayed above is from the series “24″. It’s based on the idea of taking one photograph per hour to document a continuous 24 hour period in the life of the artist. This particular one includes a photograph taken at 10pm, of Charing Cross, a busy intersection in Glasgow City center, not far from the Glasgow School of Art.

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