Laura Aldridge

Illusion
Pit Firing event
Hospitalfield, Arbroath
2014

“During our ILLUSION Spring Season in March 2014 Hospitalfield commissioned Laura Aldridge to run a day long Pit Firing Session – following on from her work here while on residency the previous year and in connection to her installation in the Walled Garden during that weekend.

Participants in the session used organic materials and minerals, including sea weed from Arbroath beach, to affect the colours of the oxidisation on the ceramic pieces prepared by Aldridge. They also got involved in stocking up the large ground pit with firewood after carefully stacking their work inside. Some of the pieces fired in the pit kiln made their way into Laura Aldridge’s exhibition at Glasgow Tramway in 2016.”