Alex Bray
Artwork title: landscape and memory: coast
Medium: porcelain, glaze, lustre
Size: 70 cm x 50 cm
$4,500
About the Artwork
Porcelain tiles, moulded, sculpted and carved evoke the flora of the Australian coastal landscape, both arboreal and aquatic. Some tiles are lustrous, others marble-like in finish. The forms drained of colour, bleached in the heat and organised into a grid formation, at odds with their organic nature. My work explores the intersection between the natural and constructed world, the confluence between permanence and decay, using porcelain to echo the fragility yet resilience of the natural world. Organic forms are constrained and contained within the grid, alluding to our role as curators of the environment, for better or worse.
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About the Artist
I am a ceramic artist, working in Sydney on Gadigal land, using finely wrought porcelain to explore ideas of fragility and resilience. I hold a BFA from the National Art School where I am currently undertaking a Masters in Fine Art. The materials and abundant visual language of my work suggest the decorative, the elaborate - reflecting an English childhood of ornamental kitsch and later time in Europe admiring the Baroque and Rococo. My work leans into this - the ornament transcends embellishment and becomes the substance of the work.
Photo: Andy Baker