Inspiration from "Transform"

             These are pieces of ceramic art that featured in the "Transform" exhibition at LSAD.

These works are by the artist Jenifer Hickey. She used very fine pieces of porcelain in her work, sometimes combining them with fabric and them illuminating them. I find this work very interesting and inspiring. for me, her pieces have a bone like quality which perhaps has sometting to do with the delicacy of the ceramic.

These ceramics are crafted by Nula O'Donovan. I find her work really appealing, I think there is a very raw, natural quality to the pieces. The work takes insiration from a river and I think you really get the feel of the water from the smooth curves of the cermaic. The white colour has connotations of bones for me also., as does the sense of structure found in her work.

Here is the work of Grainne Watts, another artist who exhibited. These beautiful fragile pots remind me strongly of the spine and rib cage due to the patterns which cover them. These lined patterns, altough simple have a striking effect.