'That Was The Year That Was' 2023 | Alex Bray

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Alex Bray 'That Was The Year That Was' 2023
porcelain, glaze
47x27x17cm

Alex’s sculptural ceramic work explores the tension between the built and organic environment; the re-emergence of the natural world over human construction; as well as providing a more personal outlet to deal with loss, death and grief and the rebirth following loss.Her current body of work is rendered largely in fine porcelain, evoking the fragility yet resilience of the natural environment. Works are both visually abundant, dystopian worlds collide with industrial ephemera and more delicately abstract, using organic motifs of kelp forms and Australian native flora conjuring the idea of the environment in flux. Intricate detail is made coherent through simple glazes and slips in a largely monochromatic palette. The work pushes the boundaries of material integrity, working the clay body finer and thinner to enable its activation by light, creating a luminous ethereal quality suggesting the ephemeral and the liminal – the space between light and dark; existence and disappearance.