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Since graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2002, Attridge’s practice has focused on exploring female sexuality through the use of different materials such as household materials, jesmonite and more recently porcelain. Abstracting the female form, Attridge explores ideas of seduction, sensuality and beauty, mixing contemporary context and traditional materials with an air of mischievous fruitiness. Attridge’s
objects of desire are intimate yet playful, and are displayed as
islands of individual curiosity - each taking on a diaristic approach.
The ornamental and seductive qualities of porcelain and its intrinsic
potential to be modelled, stretched, shaped, carved and decorated
with coloured glazes lend the sculptures a pictorial quality. Using
an amalgamation of references and symbols, female figures seep
and morph into each other, entangled in commitment and struggling
for freedom; dripping breast desserts, dying flowers and hearts
sweep across alien landscapes; legs emerge from oozing puddles,
and trees loom over billowing mounds of curves. |
G.Can Can, Porcelain, tin glaze and on glaze enamel, 34 x 27 x 26 cm |
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