About

Hello

My name is Riaan and kunkreet.studio is my project and the name of my pottery and design studio.

I am a ceramist and an artist and a craftsman – the work I do here also include the technical and the engineering aspects of the design and production process, which largely goes unseen.

I live and work within the greater Cape Town city metro (in South Africa), producing contemporary artisanal ceramic ware.

I think the word artisanal describes very well what I do here - It represents is a high quality and/or distinctive item usually made by hand or using traditional methods.

I make the entire piece, starting with the material designs to the hand building of the form and lastly firing in a wood and/or electric kiln.

I like to see the pieces that I make as utensils, which places me in the field of ceramic design and small scale studio pottery production. The pieces that I make also have a sculptural element that emerges during the hand building process, but regardless, I take great pride in the fact that these pieces are functional ceramic wares, unless stated otherwise.

I have an Instagram page @kunkreet.studio and you can see what I get up to there. (Note : Nowadays you have to log in to view my Instagram profile, for some reason...)

Thanks for reading

Riaan Pienaar

kunkreet.studio

PS: Some may be curious about the name kunkreet.studio. Kunkreet is a portmanteau using the words kuns (art) and konkreet (concrete).

When I started the kunkreet.studio project in 2012, I made things in concrete for about two years before migrating to ceramics.