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Lucy Gresley: Vessels

June 12, 2014
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Lucy Gresley, The Philosopher’s Vulture, 2014, Mixed media collage on board, 41 x 19 cm.
Lucy Gresley Ceramics, I don’t really know, 2014, Thrown and pierced earthenware vessel; green metallic glaze, 12 x 8 x 8 cm.
Lucy Gresley, Vessels I, 2014, Thrown earthenware vessels; clear & white glazes, Up to 16 cm high

Lucy Gresley, Spout, 2014, Thrown porcelain spouts, 8 x 18 x 18 cm.
Lucy Gresley, Untitled, 2014, Thrown earthenware vessel; clear glazed, 16 x 8 x 8 cm.
Lucy Gresley, Vessels II, 2014, Thrown earthenware and porcelain vessels and spouts; white and celadon glazes, Up to 16 cm high

Lucy Gresley Ceramic art, Untitled, 2014, Thrown earthenware vessel; clear glazed, 16 x 8 x 8 cm.

Lucy Gresley: Vessels

Vessels is a collection of work that explores the idea of vessels, both as containers and as metaphors for people and their emotions.  My artwork is often about thinking and reflecting – in this case, investigating the different meanings and connotations of vessels. For example, I am interested in the psychoanalytic idea of caregivers as emotional containers, who can hold and re-interpret strong feelings. I am also fascinated by alchemy and particularly the use of vessels in alchemy as sites of transformation.

In making this work, I have become interested in vessels that cannot be used or that will not contain anything. I imagine that vessels can be like people – elegant, funny, self-contained, ineffectual, silly, detached or spilling their contents – and I have played with their form to reflect this. I enjoy mistakes and forms that are intentionally wrong – collapsing spouts and vases without openings. I am also attracted to the anthropomorphic qualities of pots and vases.

I enjoy the freedom of working in clay, which I find a very direct and playful medium. I am also interested in the dialogue between these ceramic pieces and my collage work, which I can use to infer ideas and create narratives.

Created: 2014

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