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born 1982 England
Ranti Bam (born 1982) is a British-Nigerian artist from London and Lagos known for her colourful and sculptural ceramics works made with a variety of clay techniques.
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There is so much I love about it the way it registers and remembers every action.
I love the poetry of all the elements, earth, wind, water, fire and air, combining into one form.
The haptic is important to me, as is a holistic experience of the world.
I am merely a conduit who loves this extraordinary material, believes in its magical powers and wants to share them with the world.
I love that it has great narrative potential, also revealing truths about its creator as well as stories about civilisations long gone.
The curative is always going to be needed. To be human means there will be a desire for a degree of solace at most points in our life.
It’s important to me to be able to work freely, quickly and just let things flow.
I always want people to connect with my pieces in a haptic way.
It feels to me as if I am working with air itself manifested as matter.
I find it constantly reinforces in me patience and acceptance.
I always knew I wanted to make things and I thought a design course was the most plausible way to do so, but I didn’t enjoy it. It was static and I needed immediacy.
It’s about saying to the clay, “show me what you can do! Where can we go together?
I felt a synergy with clay right from the first moment I touched it.
I am very happy that I have found my material in which to express myself. For me, clay is a metaphysical thing. It’s a gift.
It was like an opening of my third-eye.
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