I've been messing around with engraved ceramic tablets to quell my drawing needs for a few years now — the results are not always the best, but boy is it fun 🤣

Original plan for Cover-ups & teardowns was to do a little exhibition just with these little ceramic engravings of the skulls beneath my textiles, but I got into ceramic sculpting also, so they became a smaller portion of it.

Like this here "Unravel", based on my previous years piece also named "Unravel" (how original) , they sometines tend to come out of the kiln a bit warped, uneven and with cracks — but that is part of the learning process and the fun of it. I myself, as eell of my body of works, tend to be a bit wonky in general 😅

But I'll get better at it. I promise 🤞

5.10.-4.11.2025
Timo Höyssä
Cover-ups & teardowns

Konttorin Galleria
Kulttuurikonttori
Lukiokatu 16, Hämeenlinna

Open mon-sun 11-18

#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #keramiikka #ceramics #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #hämeenlinna #visithämeenlinna #kulttuurikonttori

We've passed the first week of Cover-ups & teardowns in Hämeenlinna and I've heard a lot of good feeback from visitors 🩷

So, let's talk a bit about some new and old pieces in the exhibition.

Fading and Faded were two of my favorite works from last year. I loved the fabric, the volume and sharp softness of them — so making a bare, coarse and stripped down version of them felt a bit uneasy.

Fading out, 2025
Glazed ceramics

They look so small and threatening between their older siblings. Despite being the runt of this litter, the (accidental) spotty coloring and (intentional) uneven glazing of the horns make them seem more threatening.

I need to make more horns in the future...

Konttorin Galleria
Kulttuurikonttori
Lukiokatu 16, Hämeenlinna

Open mon-sun 11-18

#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #keramiikka #ceramics #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #hämeenlinna #visithämeenlinna #kulttuurikonttori

The new incarnation of Cover-ups & teardowns is now open at Konttorin Galleria in Hämeenlinna!

Thank you everyone who visited the gallery for the opening and gave compliments on the exhibition 🥰

Hopefully you'll visit my little continuation exhibition of my ceramic experiments amongst my textile creations. 🙏

In the second picture we have the posterchild of the exhibition and the previous work that inspired it:

Melty, 2025
Glazed ceramics

Oh what a world. What a world. 2025
Deer skull, carpet weft, glue

5.10.-4.11.2025
Timo Höyssä
Cover-ups & teardowns

Konttorin Galleria
Kulttuurikonttori
Lukiokatu 16, Hämeenlinna

Open mon-sun 11-18

#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #keramiikka #ceramics #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #hämeenlinna #visithämeenlinna #kulttuurikonttori