Clementina Ceramics
Clementina van der Walt is a well-known South African studio potter, based in Cape Town, who has in the past four decades lectured, run a production studio and held many one-person shows. Her work is represented in several South African national and international collections. Together with her partner Albie Bailey, they run Clementina Ceramics Studio and a separate store in Woodstock Cape Town, South Africa. They also run a small Kraaldoring Studio and Gallery outside Calitzdorp in the Klein Karoo.
Clementina van der Walt states that her intention is to ‘seek the sacred in the ordinary’. In an increasingly digitised world, her process of hand crafting objects aims to be an antidote to the cyber age – the ceramic discipline, with cultural and historical links to rituals of everyday life, encompasses society, religion and philosophy.
