Honouring our own tenderness is called strength" (Lao Tzu).
My Studio Practice aims to exploit Ceramics to communicate narratives based on Interpersonal Relationships experienced throughout mu journey of discovery. These relationships are based under the theme of "Breaking Free and Evolving." This is broken down into the concept of growing and evolving, breaking away from this continuous cycle and is a metaphor of me breaking free from these Interpersonal Relationships and growing as an individual.
"There is no past, no future; everything flows in an external present" (Richard Deming).
I analysed these Interpersonal Relationships through extensive research based on animal characteristics versus human qualities, resulting in an amalgamation of both to create conclusion in physical form. A major influence throughout my Studio Practice has been Alice Maher, like her, my work aims to arouse curiosity in the viewer, the idea that everything is not as it seems, this is done by aiming:
"to engage the viewer both physically and psychologically" (Alice Maher).
Click the link below to see a brief PowerPoint I made on Alice Maher's life and work or examine the essay I wrote on her life and work:
Like Alice Maher I incorporated different media into my ceramic pieces in order to form juxtaposition and for the viewer to form their own opinions from my work. I too like Alice Maher am intrigued by making decomposing art; it provides a new message to the piece due to it decomposing over a period of time and can create a feeling of unsettlement depending on the media used. Creating this feeling of unsettlement is done by using familiar objects and changing their function. Through my ceramic work I divulge my emotions and in these pieces I create personal hidden narratives, aiming to evoke these animal spirits that have been destroyed over the years and to make amends through a physical form.
"The unexpected and incredible belong to this World.
Only then is life made whole" (Carl Jung).
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