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8th Feb 2012Sensational Ceramics
Jolante Kvastye, Lithuania
This piece was purchased at the International Ceramics Festival at Aberystwyth where the artist was one of the demonstrators. Her figures, half-chicken, half-human are hand modelled and decorated in bright coloured enamels. They seem a bit ridiculous and childish but they are also wicked and wild, even erotic. They suggest ancient goddesses, folk tales or perhaps cartoon figures. The piece feels edgy and spiky in the hand.
Kissing Figures
Earthenware with coloured enamels, 2001
16 cm high
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Sensational Ceramics Catalogue
Sensational Ceramics Introduction | Beverley Bell Hughes | Alan Sidney | Anna Noel | Christine Constant | Paul Scott | Sandy Brown | Deidre Burnett | Peter Smith |
Mary Rose Young | Emily Myers | Simon Carroll | Chieko Yorigame | Liz Quackenbush | Ardmore Ceramic Art Studio | Jolante Kvastye | Lillemor Petersson | Lippa Dalen | | Musical instruments
