Strathnairn Arts Group Exhibition Award

Jo Victoria 2012

Artist Statement

My art practice explores ideas of place and focuses on the influence of living close to the ocean.  Unglazed porcelain captures an essential quality of this experience. The whiteness and translucency of this material produces similar qualities to bleached bones, fossils and broken shells found on the beaches and rock platforms on the ocean’s edge. Porcelain sculptural works feel fossil like in the way that they capture the life essence of once living things in this environment.

I use light in my work to portray a sense of ephemerality.  The way light interacts with the materiality of porcelain enhances ideas of fragility, strength and the influences of deep time. I have also developed a series of glassy glazes that create a sense of watery ocean light in the works.  

www.jovictoriaceramics.com 
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Images: porcelain chandelier, image credit: Lee Grant
porcelain leaf light vessel, image credit: George Selles
cast porcelain leaf image credit: George Selles