The Divine and the Mortal

This artwork featured in The Precious Clay (2019).

Attridge uses the ornamental and seductive qualities of porcelain to explore the Baroque traditions of figurative decorative sculpture. Her works are infused with desire and longing, containing underlying waves of passion and romantic archetypes; always mediated by a deep sense of humour and using comic symbolism. Exploiting the medium’s potential to be modelled, stretched and decorated, Attridge creates entangled and amorphous scenes that resonate playfully with sensual pleasures. The work itself becomes both an object and a sign of desire.

Image: Annie Attridge, The Divine and the Mortal, porcelain tine glaze, gold leaf, glaze enamels, wood, 2012. Image courtesy the artist. 

 

About the artist

Annie Attridge

Annie Attridge exhibited in The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, 2019.

 

Image: Annie Attridge, The Divine and the Mortal. Photo: Matthew Booth.