Ranti Bam

Ranti Bam (born 1982) is a British-Nigerian artist from London and Lagos known for her colourful and sculptural ceramics works made with a variety of clay techniques. Quotes The curative is always going to be needed. To be human means there will be a desire for a degree of solace at most points in our life. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum Having observed that my vessels function as ‘hearths’, objects around which an audience gathers in contemplation, meditation and discourse, I began holding workshops with the intention of sparking the wonderful conversations that happen around art. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum The haptic is important to me, as is a holistic experience of the world. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum I felt a synergy with clay right from the first moment I touched it. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum It feels to me as if I am working with air itself manifested as matter. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum There is so much I love about it the way it registers and remembers every action. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum I find it constantly reinforces in me patience and acceptance. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum I love the poetry of all the elements, earth, wind, water, fire and air, combining into one form. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum I love that it has great narrative potential, also revealing truths about its creator as well as stories about civilisations long gone. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum I am merely a conduit who loves this extraordinary material, believes in its magical powers and wants to share them with the world. Ranti said this during an interview with Victoria and Albert Museum I am very happy that I have found my material in which to express myself. For me, clay is a metaphysical thing. It’s a gift. Ranti said this during an interview about her work I always knew I wanted to make things and I thought a design course was the most plausible way to do so, but I didn’t enjoy it. It was static and I needed immediacy. Ranti said this during an interview about her work It was like an opening of my third-eye. Ranti said this during an interview about her work It’s important to me to be able to work freely, quickly and just let things flow. Ranti said this during an interview about her work It’s about saying to the clay, “show me what you can do! Where can we go together? Ranti said this during an interview about her work I always want people to connect with my pieces in a haptic way. Ranti said this during an interview about her work External Links Q105723568 Category:Living people Category:1982 births Category:Artists from Nigeria Category:Artists from England Category:Women from Nigeria Category:People from Lagos