Ori Ceramic – Hand built – Hand painted – Stoneware Cup – BMC6

Ori Ceramic – Hand built – Hand painted – Stoneware Cup – BMC6

Ori Ceramics is the studio of ceramic artist and sculptor Medea Qoqiashvili in Tbilisi. Her collectible ceramics carry the spirit of Georgian ceramics, made by hand and painted piece by piece. For The Blue Moon Collection she created a series of one of a kind pieces, among them a hand painted stoneware mug.

A graduate of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Medea turned to clay at the age of 16 and worked with ceramics masters in workshops across the city before founding Ori Ceramics. Most of her work is built from Georgian red clay, which she paints with underglaze, a technique that gives her surfaces their distinctive character and connects her collectible ceramics to the material tradition of Georgian ceramics. Her subjects are people: faces, emotions and the small stories of everyday life, shaped into vessels that sit between sculpture and functional object. Her work is listed in the Homo Faber Guide of the Michelangelo Foundation. Within The Blue Moon Collection, each hand painted stoneware mug carries its own illustration.