Danijela PešUt

I love stoneware that's roughly grogged because it gives the best support to organic forms and complements them with its own relief structure. I love a softly pigmented and "worn-out" surface on the outside and a smooth and shiny inside. In 2013, we also built an anagama kiln because wood-firing is a process of complete transformation. It is a process of respecting the forces of nature, cycles, transformation, being aware of the importance of working together and tolerance, as well as personal work and awakening, zen philosophy, and way of life. I love how the wood-fired works show on their skin the landscapes, galaxies, and entire universes imprinted upon them through fire and ashes on the highest metaphysical level. It is a unifying - as for the works in the kiln, so for the one who humbly serves the whole process. The inevitable occurence of unifiaction is actually an intuitive connection and adaptation in each and every moment, to maintain the flow.

Born in Rijeka (1972) on the beautiful Adriatic coast we currently call Croatia. Due to parents' work grew up and moved all around Yugoslavia, a country of open-minded people working for the benefit of everyone. Because of the war in 1991 and losing my family, possessions, youth, a...

Autodidact.
Clay arrives as a saviour of my soul in order for it to express, by chance. Through various courses, it leads me into a state from which I will never wake up from.

Sculpting course: 2 years with sculptor Marja Proper, Koorenhuis, Den Haag

Ceramics course: 3 years with ceramist Moki Last, Koorenhuis, Den Haag




Artists:

I am the co-founder of an International Ceramics Centre, where we have been organising ceramist colonies since 2006. They bring many collaborations and exchanges of knowledge and experiences with ceramists from the whole world, who selflessly and enthusiastically accept the resurrection of art in a small, historically rich village.

This way I meet my ceramic guru, Lou Smedts, and we enter into world-renowned projects, from exhibitions to experimental firing techniques, colonies, and gatherings.

The Yapode, my famous ancestors from Illyricum, have awakened me to resurrect their memory and their approach to living. Yapodese ceramics (iron and bronze age) still breathes with the air of the free human living in love and unity with the planet and cosmic law. Their symbols, used as decorative elements on ceramics, metal, wood, garments, and clothing, and recognisable in other ancient civilizations, are ...

2001. - Friendship- Gallery Owl, Delft, The Netherlands

2005. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition-, Willebroek, Belgium
2005. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition-, Antwerpen, Belgium

2007. -III Bienal Internacional del Mosaico Contemporaneo-MICC, San Nicolas, Argentina

2008. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Mechelen, Belgium

2009. -Keramika, Atelje Janja Gora- Gallery ZILIK, Karlovac, Croatia (organizer)
2009. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Torhout, Belgium
2009. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Andenne, Belgium

2010. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2010. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
2010. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition- Musee du Gres, St. Amand en Puisaye, France

2011. -Chawan - travelling exhibition, Croatian Museum of Tourism, Opatija, Croatia (organizer)
2011. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Needham, Massachusetts, USA

2012. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Gallery Yusai, Nara-shi, Japan

2013. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, La Borne, France
2013. -Chawan - international chawan exhibition, Kaohsiung Dream Mall, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014. -Chawan - international chaw...