About

Piet Stockmans
Extreme Measures
Text by Glenn Adamson

All your life you circle around the point where you try to capture and give shape to the core of your personality. You can’t always stay in the middle. In my case at least, I always had to go to the fringes to breathe again. – Piet Stockmans, 2020

Ceramics is, quite naturally, an art of edges. Every thrown vessel is a perimeter manifested, an object in orbit around itself; every ceramic sculpture a constructed mass whose energies congregate on the surface. Though it has a reputation for being domestic, even decorative, this is a fundamental …