Halima Cassell is a Ceramics Artist born in Kashmir in 1975, she moved to England at a very early age and became a student at UCLan in 1994 studying Ceramics. In 2002 she returned to UCLan to study her Masters and then went to study for her PDQ in 2004. Halima’s presentation focused on all the work se has produced and what has influenced her into becoming to designer she is today. Her creativity and work is heavily influenced from her Asian roots, the multi-cultural background is the basis for most of her work being influenced and inspired by; Islamic and other intricate architecture aspects such as church, mosque and synagogue architecture, her other main influence is mathematics and artists who use mathematics in their arts such as Bridget Riley.
Halima then proceeded to talk about her early work, she worked with simple designs such as rectangles, triangles and squared to produce work such as; Moss Ripple, Reverberating Segments, Gold Cross Hatch and Coliseum to name a few. She then explains how she began to see influences in structures of the past and contemporary building styles, she was intruded by how internal space and the construction articulate together, she then focused her work on this creating; Blackburn on the Hill, Concentric Flower, Chain of Diamonds, Marmor and Citadel to name a few. Through this she created Tsunami, her first piece which was curved and had no edges, like all of her previous work, this then influenced her to create Mag, Harlequin Shift, Carapace & Magma, Voluta and R.E.M to name a few. As her work began to develop, it began to become more complex and each piece of work began to become more detailed, soon she was using comments and observations by people at exhibitions to develop her work.
I wont delve too much into what else was said here, but I will explain how I have been influenced by her work during my research assignment at a later date.
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