Witty, warm and unapologetically naughty, Katrin Moye truly is a potter like no other. She doesn't beat around the bush or shy away from things considered 'taboo' – nudity, bums, menopause, historic words for genitals – you name it, she's made it!
Her bold, colourful ceramics riff on an Italian Renaissance style called maiolica, characterised by bright, colourful decoration and tin glaze. Poking fun at tradition, she blends historical shapes and decorative techniques with literature, 18th-century dirty jokes and the present day – all with a glimmer in her eye, and a cheeky wink of course.
Join us for a sneak peek around her Nottingham studio where we can watch Katrin in action. See her throwing on the pottery wheel, hand building, using pottery tools and glazing – all with an irresistible lick of unintentional ASMR (credit to the clay).
- 00:00 Meet the ceramics artist
- 00:21 Clay pottery ASMR and studio tour
- 01:08 Throwing on the wheel ASMR
- 01:59 Wheel throwing an albarello jar ASMR (no talking)
- 02:33 What is maiolica pottery?
- 03:11 Glazing pottery ASMR (bubbles)
- 03:41 History and the now
- 04:19 Menopause pottery
- 04:55 Symbolism of the snake
- 05:19 The brain fog vase – ‘Cerebrum nebula’
- 06:27 Productive not reproductive: positive ageing
- 07:31 Who is Laurence Sterne? Tristram Shandy?
- 08:47 Renaissance symbolism – modern language of emojis?
- 10:15 What is the aubergine emoji?
- 10:49 15th century inspiration – Andrea della Robbia
- 11:04 What is the peach emoji?
- 11:55 Sgraffito, brush and painting ASMR
- 12:53 Katrin on being cheeky
