Zuzanna Skurka

Material translation, design and research

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Ceramic

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    Flower Vessel

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    Pot Planter

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  • Ceramics was never a material I believed in. Both the energy-intensive and non-reversible process of firing clay was something I was questioning. Towards the end of my education, I made attempts to translate the classic ceramic forms into more circular material solutions.

  • Forms in ceramics were made during the education at the Royal Danish Academy. Exercises in shape and function.


Flower Vessel

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Mini flower vassel, 3D printed salt clay, 2020

  • Translating digitally created forms into analogue technologies. Objects produced in this project are all based on simplified flower like shape. It is an attempt to incorporate one shape into different types of vessels produced in a variety of materials: salt clay, black clay, porcelain, glass.

  • They are not mean to be a series, rather a separate designs that based on the same idea.

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Flower or vase?

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Pink flower vassel, blown glass. By Swede Glas, 2020 

Ice cream flower cup, casted porcelain, 2020 

Mini flower vassel, 3D printed salt clay, 2020 

Black flower plate, pressmolded balck clay, 2020 

Black flower bowl, pressmolded black clay, 2020

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Flower Vessel around the workshop

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Black flower plate, pressmolded balck clay, 2020 

Black flower bowl, pressmolded black clay, 2020


Pot Planter

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Medium pot planter with plate, fired teracotta, porcelain, raw soil with natural fibers, 12,5 cm, 2021

  • “Planter” (2021) is a project that contains several products and prototypes, in various sizes and materials. Being interested in exploring alternative material solutions I am trying to translate fundamental forms and functions into a more ecologically sustainable materials. Fired terracotta, unfired clay mixed with nature and human-made objects harvested from the sea, rimmed earth body and seaweed biomaterial. It is a design focused on form and material development.

  • Working on the production of everyday objects whose shape is withdrawn from the historical and social understanding of what the form of a planter is, allowed for building a clear and readable shape.

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Mini flower vassel, 3D printed salt clay, 2020

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Soil planter, raw soil, natural fibers; straw, water, H: 12,5 cm, mutant planter, unfired salt clay, plastic and rubber waste from Baltic sea, seaweed from the Baltic sea, H:12,5 cm, seaweed planter, seaweed from the Baltic sea, natural binder, softener, H:12,4 cm, 2021

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