ÁBEL LAKATOS

Cluster Crafts Exhibitor | 2024

Ábel Lakatos got drawn into ceramics by fire; he participated in a kiln-sculpture workshop of Nina Hole and Fred A. Olsen at the International Ceramic Studio of Kecskemét, in 2006. The Studio and its ever inspiring atmosphere made the 3rd year graphic design student change his major and opened the international horizon. Lakatos attended Glasgow School of Art and University of West Hungary, where he got his masters degree in 2009 as a silica designer artist. By attending several master courses and symposiums in Europe and Japan he had the opportunity to learn from Gareth Mason, Masakazu Kusakabe, Ilona Romule, Richard Notkin, Marcus Böhm and many more. Displayed his work on 3 continents, participated in London, Milan and Paris Design Fair, has pieces in the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts and Jingdezhen, China, the birthplace of porcelain.

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His current work deals with time through narrative materials, using personal, historical and geological stories.

“Creating and designing sculptural and functional pieces is deeply connected to the actual handcrafting process. I rarely draw ideas for new series rather flourish from the alluvium of the everyday workflow. When a design is ripe enough, manufacturing becomes a mantra of movements, free thoughts are born and quickly transform into material and technology experiments. This is how new forms sprout from the process. Continuous physical connection with the material is crucial to work with its stories. Personal stories from last summer’s bonfire by the river, family tales and intercultural histories, geological events. They all soak into the ground, into clay.”

— Ábel Lakatos