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Man scattering blossoms
28×16×6cm ceramic
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Masculin Féminin
19 April – 11 May
Underlying my work is the concept of fragility both in the materiality of clay and within the human condition. My practice questions generally accepted ideas and stereotypes of domestic ceramics which includes plates and figurative works. I continue to play with historical, cultural and personal references in my work to consider wider themes of values and expectations within contemporary society. Ceramic objects come embedded with ideas from their past utilitarian and decorative uses. I am especially interested in their use for ritual purpose and as souvenirs. I explore notions of value and ideas of vulnerability through concepts of scale, intimacy, and humour. Within my themes, it is the quotidian matters that need remembering and commemorating. In figurative works, we recognise humanity, activity and emotion which suit the direct and honest qualities of the clay.
In this new body of work, I take my starting point from French New Wave Cinema of the 1960’s. The title comes from Jean-Luc Godard’s film, Masculin Féminin (1966). This film and others of La Nouvelle Vague serve as a personal reference point to consider the portrayal of gender through art history and culture. The exhibition presents an intimate iconography in the form of busts, figurative works, plates and egg cups. Comic brides, men with flowers and animals, caring fathers, actors and actresses, and sons and daughters are modelled and painted to be presented as a narrative of objects, while plates and egg cups beome the carriers of messages and ideas. Personal icons and histories become stilled in ceramic, pulling us back anecdotally and materially into their past.
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March 2022
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Masculin
22×16×16cm glazed ceramic
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Big Hair
36×30.5×18cm terracotta with underglaze and oxides
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Father Figure
29×21×13cm maiolica
$1,900
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Woman of Sorrows
27 cm diameter maiolica, onglaze and lustre
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Idyllic Egg Cups
set of three, each approx 8×5×5cm
porcelain with lustre
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Sleeping Head
18×32×19cm terracotta, slip and paint
$2,500
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Modern Bridal
32×13×15.5cm terracotta
$3,000
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Madeleine (Masculine Féminin)
27cm diameter terracotta, slip and glazes
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Smelling a flower
20×14×8cm terracotta and glaze
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Ghost Girl
24.5×18×14cm stoneware
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Belmondo
22×20×20cm terracotta and underglaze
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France Gall
19cm diameter maiolica
$450
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Man with a Rabbit
32×19×14cm maiolica
$2,100
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Jean Pierre Léaud
19cm diameter maiolica
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Louis
26×9×9cm bronze
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Good Provider
26×13×7cm terracotta, glazes
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Girl with Elaborate Plaits
33×21×20cm terracotta
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Girl with a Button
36×25×19cm stoneware
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Sassy in Sicily
29×13×8cm terracotta, slip and glazes
$1,800
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Boy with cat
32×14×10cm terracotta and glazes
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The green bikini
28×12×15cm ceramic and glaze
$1,800
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Idyllic Egg Cups
set of three, each approx 8×5×5cm
porcelain with lustre
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Paul (Masculine Féminin)
27cm diameter terracotta, slip and glazes
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Masculin Feminin Egg Cups
set of three, each approx 8×5×5cm
porcelain with lustre
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Girl with the navy swimmers
21×12×9cm stoneware and underglaze
$1,500
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French Songs Egg Cups
set of three, each approx 8×5×5cm
porcelain with lustre
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Françoise Hardy
21 cm diameter maiolica with lustre
