Leigh Craven: Selected works, 2021-2024
My ceramic sculptures merge the human figure with elements of flora and fauna as I explore the dissolving boundaries between life and death. Built through slip-casting and altered by hand, the figures become bodies that vanish into landscapes with nature overtaking the human form. Layers of colored slips, glazes, and mixed materials obscure and reveal the figure, blurring distinctions between the physical and the metaphysical. By combining beauty and fragility, the work invites contemplation of transformation, loss, and the interconnections of living things.
Figure, 2021-2024
Busts, 2020-2024
Captions
- Constricted, 2021, ceramic with underglaze and glaze, 24″ x 8″ x 7″
- Cool Cover, 2024, porcelain and colored porcelain slip, underglaze, palladium, 17″ x 8″
- Encircled in Sin, 2021, ceramic with underglaze and glaze, 24″ x 7″ x 7″
- Fragrant Reminders, 2023, porcelain and colored porcelain slip, 20 ½” x 9″
- Practicing Patience, 2022, porcelain and underglaze, 20 ½” x 9″
- Prickly Past, 2021, ceramic with underglaze and glaze, nails, 24″ x 7″ x 7″
- Primroses at Twilight, 2021, ceramic with underglaze and glaze, 24″ x 8″ x 7″
- Silent Slumber, 2024, porcelain and colored porcelain slip, 4″ x 8″ x 21″
- Slithering Secrets, 2022, porcelain and colored porcelain slip, 20 ½” x 7″
- Weighted Breath, 2022, porcelain and colored porcelain slip, underglaze, enamel, 20 ½” x 7″
- Winter’s Dawn, 2022, porcelain and colored porcelain slip, 20 ½” x 8″
- Flock, 2021, ceramic with underglaze pencils and glaze, 5 ½” x 4 ¼” x 3″ each
- Foreshadow suite, 2020, ceramic with underglaze and glaze, 5 ½” x 4 ¼” x 3″ each
- In the Moon’s Shadow, 2021, ceramic with underglaze pencils and glaze, 5 ½” x 4 ¼” x 3″ each
- Migration, 2020, ceramic with underglaze and glaze, 5 ½” x 4 ¼” x 3″
- Strangled, 2020, ceramic with underglaze and glaze, 5 ½” x 4 ¼” x 3″
- Untitled, 2024, porcelain with enamel, 4 ½” x 3 ½”
