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Description/
A unique ceramic bowl.
Olivia Walker's current work explores organic and decaying forms through the build-up of complex surfaces. From her studio in Dartmoor, she makes initial forms on the potter's wheel before deconstructing them and building upon them with thousands of shards of porcelain. Many of her vessels are thrown and altered – they are cut away and reassembled in the leather-hard stage which allows her to deconstruct the form of the bowl and then build up a surface on this new form. Walker starts from a set point on a bowl, and lets these organic accretions spread out and grow – "eating through”, or growing over the form beneath. They make reference to organisms such as coral and fungus, but remain abstract.
Olivia Walker
Designer
Olivia Walker works mainly in porcelain and is interested in the material qualities of clay: the contrast between rough and smooth, straight lines and imperfect ones, complete forms and collapsed ones, and internal versus external spaces. Her works are internationally celebrated and have been showcased at the British Craft Pavillion, Melbourne Design Week, COLLECT 2019 and more.
Date/
2019
Material/
Ceramic
Dimension/
11.7 x 10.4 x 11.7 cm (4.6 x 4.1 x 4.6 in)
Style/
Contemporary, Contemporary Ceramics
Heritage/
United Kingdom
Ships from/
New York, NY
