Untitled, Fold series, green and black 2020
I make small ceramic sculptures which deploy opposites of form, texture & colour as metaphors for perfection & control versus imperfection & chaos. My work explores the contemporary obsession with seeking control & perfection in all aspects of our lives. I’m interested in the tendency, prevalent on social media, of masking the chaos & messiness of real life, through the presentation of curated & carefully managed identities, which only highlight success or positive news. My sculptures use physical metaphors to set this obsession in opposition to the chaotic & imperfect nature of daily life.
In 2020, in response to the economic, health & social chaos resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic, I made some pieces which developed further collapsing & folding forms I had start to explore in 2019. Objects were thrown as cylinders & squashed & squeezed while the clay was still wet, causing collapsed & bulging forms to appear. This sculpture writhes & twists, uncomfortable in its skin
Untitled, Fold series, pink and blue 2020
I make small ceramic sculptures which deploy opposites of form, texture & colour as metaphors for perfection & control versus imperfection & chaos. My work explores the contemporary obsession with seeking control & perfection in all aspects of our lives. I’m interested in the tendency, prevalent on social media, of masking the chaos & messiness of real life, through the presentation of curated & carefully managed identities, which only highlight success or positive news. My sculptures use physical metaphors to set this obsession in opposition to the chaotic & imperfect nature of daily life.
In 2020, in response to the economic, health & social chaos resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic, I made some pieces which developed further collapsing & folding forms I had start to explore in 2019. Objects were thrown as cylinders & squashed & squeezed while the clay was still wet, causing collapsed & bulging forms to appear. This sculpture folds & twists, anxious in its skin
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Jane King
United Kingdom
https://www.janekingceramics.com
I was awarded an MA in Ceramics from Bath Spa University in 2012, (distinction for my final MA project).
My work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally. I was awarded the Medal of the President of the Italian Senate in the 2013 iteration of the International Prize for Contemporary Ceramics, Faenza, Italy, and my work featured in the international ceramics magazine La Ceramica in Italia e Nel Mondo in June of that year. My work has since been shortlisted for national and international prizes, including: the inaugural Craft Emergency Award (Aspex, Portsmouth UK, 2013), the inaugural Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize (London, UK, 2014); the inaugural Carter Preston Prize (Liverpool, UK, 2016), the Annex Collection Acquisition Award (London, UK, 2017) and the European Prize for Applied Art (Mons, Belgium and Kilkenny, Ireland, 2018-19). I held my first small solo show in Sleaford, UK in 2015. My work is held in public and private collections in the UK, US and Italy.