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Halima Cassell Eclectica - Global Inspirations Exhibition

Halima Cassell MBE - Meet the Makers | Glyndebourne

Shape of Things

Art UK: Sculptors' techniques

Halima Cassell is a sculptor who enjoys the carving process and is most famous for her intricate and beautiful ceramic pieces. We caught up with her at her studio and she talks about carving clay, her love of art and maths and how she became an artist.

 

The Benefit of Outside Support

Natural Geometry

Things of Beauty Growing Study Day: Halima Cassell & Alison Britton

This study day, which took place on Monday 18 June 2018, was organised in partnership with Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It concluded the display of the exhibition Things of Beauty Growing: British studio pottery, which had been presented at both institutions. 

 

A Change of Heart - Interview with Halima Cassell

The University of Leicester's 12th Annual Sculpture in the Garden Exhibition

 

Calliope

This film shows a rotating view of the contemporary sculpture Calliope by Halima Cassell, which is a new acquisition presented by the Art Fund. The film was created by a series of still photographs of the object which were taken just after the sculpture arrived

Interview on 'Calliope'

This video shows Rebecca Bridgman, Curator of Islamic Art, interviewing artist Halima Cassell about her sculpture 'Calliope'.  The sculpture is a new acquisition presented by the Art Fund and is on display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Delivery and photography of the new acquisition: Calliope

This behind the scenes video shows the arrival and photography of a new acquisition presented by the Art Fund. The contemporary sculpture, called Calliope, was made by the artist Halima Cassell. It will be on display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

  • She was sketching constantly and continually sought to transpose her drawings into sculptural forms. The surface as well as the shapes emerged together in sculpture which often combined enormous complexity with simplicity and unity.
    – Helaine Blumenfeld OBE FRBS Dlitt

  • The geometry and the mathematics involved in Halima’s work have the same effect on me as listening to Bach: she manages to get the same essential harmony of shape, form and detail. Her pieces are deeply fashioned, which is unusual in ceramics
    – Eric Knowles (Ceramics Expert)

  • Her profound understanding of the geometric rules governing any given pattern, allow her to bend, or even break them.
    – Peter Randell-Page, Sculptor

  • While working, Cassell becomes deeply involved in each piece to the point where she is unaware of her surroundings even watching her work on a piece for a few minutes, it is obvious that the process commands all her attention
    – Emmanuel Cooper

  • The most inspiring ceramic work I have seen in thirty years! Beautiful, mesmerising, powerful and thoughtful. Genius! Love, love, love this work.
    – Judith Ramsgate, 53 years old

  • Cassell’s work encompasses and generates complexity and surprise. All of her sculptural work shares a language of geometry and volume but each is intriguingly different
    – Elli Herring

  • Her signature material is clay, which she moulds and carves with natural authority and no little dexterity. Her crisply cut and satisfying forms live on in the mind… She is a force of nature.
    – Andrew Lambirth, Art Critic - Spectator Magazine

  • Cassell’s Work Is Subliminal in its originality, having no parallel in the sculptural or crafts genres, whose borders it crosses.
    – Jean Vacher, Collections Manger, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham

  • I find her work uplifting, I would never consider buying it solely as an investment
    – Eric Knowles (Ceramics Expert)

  • Beautiful – amazing to see someone work with such a variety of material to create such stunning, intricate pieces. I can imagine them out in the world, near water and nature. Beautiful, thank you.
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