Lost Flowers – Summer Garden

This artwork featured in The Precious Clay (2019).

Motivated by her craving to be present in the vegetal world, Nguyen works directly with both living and dried plant material, which she assembles and manipulates by casting and modelling.

In the final work, the plant material is sacrificed during the firing process, but is also given a new life; the white porcelain is now a vessel that is imbued with both fragility and permanence; it holds the image and the contours of a secret vanished garden. Nguyen is fascinated by alchemy and its associations with porcelain, but she is also inspired by more discreet arts such as gardening and Japanese flower arranging.

Image: Rosa Nguyen, Lost Flowers – Summer Garden, botanical material and glazed porcelain, 2017. Image courtesy the artist. 

 

 

About the artist

Rosa Nguyen

Rosa Nguyen exhibited in The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, 2019.

Image: Rosa Nguyen, Lost Summer + Lost Spring, ceramic. Image courtesy the artist.