Katie Anne Sharpe

My functional works are revolving around the idea of giving new life to my old solar plate printing plates. After I have pulled an edition from the plates, the idea of the image on paper is satisfied to me. I ’emboss’ the plate on a slab of clay, then using hand building techniques shape it into a functional form. This process also degrades the plate to eventual ruin which also allows me the usual print maker’s process of destroying plates while also lending a system to which I can adhere to create functional ceramics. My goal for this process is to give the tactile relationship with the printing plate to others that is equal to the one that I get while creating both the print edition and the ceramic object. This work was fired at Arrowmont in Austin Riddle’s workshop Summer 2019.