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Fissures of Wisdom

Fissures of Wisdom 1 (SOLD)
Fissures of Wisdom 2 (SOLD)
(2016)
Glazed stoneware, resin, gold, acylic
Unique
​H37 W27 D20cm (each)

The classic portrait - an elegant pose – a considered composition of angles and eye direction, reminiscent of Bernini’s  Baroque portrait of Costanza Bonarelli, 1636-38.
However, these ornamental portraits seek to consider a critical engagement with the viewer, confronting fundamental questions of the inner self.
Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi and a philosophy of seeing beauty in imperfection, they seek to question a tension between destruction and repair, fragility and resilience.
Half of each portrait has a transparency, a window to the inner self, inviting a deeper consideration. Paradoxically the ice like surface holds the image of its environment trapped within its mass, inverted and distorted creating a confusion of reality and the imagined, a state of ambivalence.
Together they repel and attract, they are the same but different, one perhaps a victim the other a perpetrator, both have a story to tell.


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  • Home
  • About
    • Artist Statement
    • History
    • Press & Publications
    • Exhibitions & Awards
  • Kintsugi Sculpture
  • Gallery
    • The World Outside
    • Isolation
    • Perfect Imperfection
    • The Clinker Connection
    • Migrant Material
    • Bronze Sculptures
    • Emily Williamson Statue
    • Commissions
    • Archive >
      • A Link With The Past
      • Portrait sculpture
      • The Body >
        • Olympia Selfie After Manet
        • Music Festival
        • Venus 2010
        • Man With Phone
        • Nearly the First Smile
        • Ballet
        • Peloton
    • Garden Sculpture
  • Quarry Life Blog
  • Contact
  • shop