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Selection of works
The Textured Landscape Collection
Available to buy in the online shop
Colour and texture are influential themes within Iona's work, creating a series of functional pieces embrasing the landscape and exploring materiality.
Malton Sculpture Trail
"The Donut"
While as an artist in residency at The University of Sunderland as part of an AA2A Scheme, Iona Stock has been continuing to explore scale, form and colour.
Pushing scale on the potter's wheel Iona has joined different thrown components together to create this sculptural vessel which consists of a hollow donut in its centre supported by two straight cylindrical vessels. Resulting in a fantastic mix of straight and curved surfaces with a framed hollow space in its centre.
Iona uses specialist silicon carbide glazes, which are layered in complimentary turquoises, greens, dark blues and golden browns. Once fired this has generated a fantastic surface finish with a variety of different textures and colour combinations due to the overlapping and layering of the glazes.This Donut vessel has come into fruition due to the recent development of works Iona has been creating while playing with forms, textures and colours on a larger scale.
Yorkshire Tea Collection
Iona Stock is a ceramic artist and teacher, creating highly decorated hand thrown functional porcelain ware that bring joy to the everyday.
These pieces are decorated with manganese oxide, cobalt oxide and china clay creating a slip which Iona uses to decorate the painterly, illustrative designs from plein air drawings of the rural location of her studio.
The joy and peacefulness of place is transferred into the pieces though the highly intensive making process.
Flooded Field Design
The Yorkshire Tea Flooded Field Design is inspired by a very chilly walk around Salton (Near Wombleton) with the dog, we came across a beautiful flooded field which had then frozen with trees and shrubs poking out from the frozen water creating a lovely scene.
Scots Pine Design
The Scots Pine Design is an interpretation of the bottom of my garden, for a change of scenery I was painting the vessels outside and looked up to see the garden. I had a spare vessel next to me so painted the new design straight onto the pots, with a few tweaks the design came into fruition.
Corn Design
My shed studio has the most wonderful view out onto open fields, last summer after a long day I popped out to appreciate the sunset. The last of the sun's rays caught the golden heads of wheat, I thought a brown slip for this design would be more fitting.
The Holy Trinity Church Project 2022
"Iona Stock is a ceramicist and University of Sunderland graduate working from her home studio in Nawton. She developed a new body of work in response to the architecture and presence of Seventeen Nineteen - based in Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland.Playing with texture, colour and the unique lighting of the space.
Stock has chosen the Apse as a canvas for her ideas. Reflecting the intimate space, sense of balance and calm in the forms of her organic vessels, she has created an installation that changes as the day passes, the light illuminating different elements and casting intricate shadows " -Lily Daniels
Vessel on Vessels 2020
This project started at the beginning of lockdown. Iona threw small vessels at home, firing them in a bonfire. Shecreated a series of still life drawings looking into the forms and shadows and then created a series of embroideries looking at colour and texture.
Whilst Iona was at Richard Heeleys as a summer intern she threw more little bottles which were wood fired and also some porcelain pieces which are hand painted with the vessel drawings using slip.These pieces were exhibited at the National Glass Centre as part of their ‘One Year On’ exhibition.
Overlooked Knowledge 2019
Iona has created a Silica Chain by placing different coloured vessels and smaller unglazed vessels to depict this chain and different glaze components with molecular formulas and working notes depicted onto the table surface.
The silica chain is the glassy component of the glaze which is broken with Sodium Oxide creating a flux component making the glaze runnier, this is depicted on the table with the light green vessel.The silica chain is joined to other silica chains using Calcium Oxide which creates the refractory component making the glaze stiffer. This is depicted by the light blue vessel
The oxygen molecules of the Silica Chain are depicted by the unglazed little vessels.The glass table has more information acid etched into the surface.Around the silica chain vessels are the molecular formulas for the clay and glazes for each vessel. Around the oxygen vessels there are the working notes of how to create the vessels.Within the whole piece is all the information you need to re-create the piece.
Iona is drawing attention to the overlooked depth of knowledge that is needed to create the vessels.
Great Barrier Reef 2018
Using terracotta, laser etching and hand painted iron oxide, Iona has created a series of vessels taking the patterns from the Great Barrier Reef Corals.
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