JDZ Column, superwhite Jingdezhen porcelain, with blue underglaze transfer and PVD base, 2012 (photography by Michael Zajac)
JDZ Column, superwhite Jingdezhen porcelain, with blue underglaze transfer and PVD base, 2012 (photography by Michael Zajac)
JDZ Column, superwhite Jingdezhen porcelain, with blue underglaze transfer and PVD base, 2012 (photography by Michael Zajac)
Crown of JDZ Column with blue underglaze transfer, 2012 (photography by Michael Zajac)
Base of JDZ Column with PVD (physical vapour deposition) base, 2012 (photography by Michael Zajac)
JDZ Tiles with ceramic decals of non-orthogonal image created by Michael Zajac of a section of one of Grace Nickel’s ceramic sculptures, unglazed, glazed and with PVD, 2012 (photography by Michael Zajac)
The School of Art Faculty Exhibition continues in ARTlab at the University of Manitoba until May 15, 2015. All the works I’m showing were made in Jingdezhen, China using the famous superwhite porcelain and the PVD process (physical vapour deposition of a metallic surface), which, in ceramics, seems to be unique to Jingedezhen, the porcelain capital of China. I also had large ceramic decals made for the porcelain tiles – I tried a decal on unglazed porcelain, one on glazed porcelain, and the third was unglazed and went into the PVD chamber after the decal had been fired on. All of this research led up to my most recent body of work titled Arbor Vitae.
