Two wood-fired bowls with rust-red rims and pooled ash glaze, resting in deep green forest moss

Moss Bowls/Wood-fired stoneware, ash glaze

Siri
K

Objects pulled out of earth and fire, and left a little unresolved.

Wood-fired vessels, sculptural forms and handbuilt ovens by Siri Kristiansen. Nesodden, Norway.

Selected work

Vessels, and the
stranger things.

Wood-fired, raku-fired and pit-fired. Most are built by hand; the fire finishes them.

Form, fire and function

Ovens

Siri K builds and fires her own kilns — brick vaults, pits dug into the ground, barrels of sawdust. They are working objects, and they are the reason the work looks the way it does.

Inside a brick-vaulted wood kiln, packed floor to arch with unfired pots on stacked shelves — Loaded, before firingWood kiln, brick vault

The mouth of a kiln at temperature, a ring of orange fire burning in surrounding darkness — At temperatureWood firing

A brick kiln chamber filled with rows of glazed cups, jars and bowls waiting to be fired — The chamberWood kiln

Ceramic pieces burning in a bed of sawdust, live flame licking across their surfaces — SawdustPost-firing reduction

A timber-framed firing pit after burning out, small pots scattered through pale wood ash — After the pitPit firing