Ceramics
Platters, 1985
Platter No.1
Platter No.2
Platter No.3
Platter No.4
Platter No.11
Platters [Nos 1-4], 1985
Platter No 11, 1985, diameter: 17 inches (43 cm)
Collection: National Museum of Wales (Eric and Jean Cass Gift, Contemporary Art Society)
Made in Todi, Umbria, Italy, at the invitation of artist and friend Piero Dorazio
Ceramic works, 1994
Animal Imagined
Lamia
Sorcerer
Thupelo Memory
Warrior
Animal Imagined, 1994, 14 (height) x 12 x 7 inches (36 x 30.5 x 18 cm)
Lamia, 1994, 16 (height) x 12.5 x 6 inches (41 x 32 x 15 cm)
Sorcerer, 1994, 18 (height) x 17 x 10.5 inches (46 x 43 x 27 cm)
Thupelo Memory, 1994, 16 (height) x 19 x 17 inches (41 x 48 x 43 cm)
Warrior, 1994, 17 (height) x 16.5 x 10 inches (43 x 42 x 25.5 cm)
Exhibited
CCA Galleries, London, June 1994
‘I was never really drawn to Renaissance Art – my secret loves were the archaic world and the arts of other cultures, Egyptian, Indian, Polynesian and African, which were largely considered to be “Primitive Art” until this century. Many of these influences were absorbed by the Modern Masters, Picasso, Matisse and Brancusi during the 1920s.
‘I had not touched three-dimensional ceramics since I was seven years old until I began this group of work at the Royal College of Art this year. After my initial optimism at the “idea” of the project I began to realise that it was harder than it looked, but guided and encouraged by David Harrison we produced this group of work. It’s too early for me to gauge how I feel about it. What I really enjoyed was the freedom to “try anything”, the unexpected results with some of the colour, and also to indulge in the possibility of introducing irony and even humour into these mad little hybrids.’
John Hoyland, May 1994