Let these ceramic and metal artists whisk you away on a summer getaway, as they explore personal connections to place and landscape. The coast proves a continuous source of inspiration, where landscapes collide, nature thrives, and the rhythm of the seaside soundscape pauses time, evoking memories.
Work by Delfina Emmanuel, Helen Beard, Norman Cherry, Hilary Mayo, Daphne Krinos and Rosa Wiland Holmes, is available in our Marylebone Gallery and online at caagallery.org.uk.
Delfina Emmanuel, Abyss Cachepot, 2022
Delfina Emmanuel, Coral Pendant, 2023
Let Delfina Emmanuel surround you with the traditions and perfumes of Sardinia, a land rich in marine life, with ancient customs that have survived the passage of time. Her current practice is informed by her native culture with its music and folk-costumes of luxuriant materials, adorned with precious jewels and her early education in classics, in particular the fairy tales and symbolisms found in Latin and Greek mythology. Emmanuel is particularly captivated by the gentle flowing of the living creatures found in the seabed: protruding coral structure tentacles, the huge variety of these porous sponges, the ways in which they take different shapes and the porosity and patterns of their surface.
Helen Beard, Serpentine Swimmers, 2024
Helen Beard, Swimmer Beaker, 2024
Let Helen Beard guide you through the delights of her local London area. There are all sorts of characters who crop up again and again on her pots, from swimmers in the parks to traders at the local markets. By grouping her pots together, she likes to tell a story – creating whimsical scenes that capture the small yet precious moments that make up our daily lives.
Norman Cherry, Seeking Azimuth, 2023
Norman Cherry, Pangkor Laut Paradise Brooch, 2023
Follow Norman Cherry as he beachcombs along the coast, finding joy in seeing uses for other people’s detritus as he collects small bits of flotsam and jetsam. Covid-19 and the two lockdown periods focussed him very much on creating work which did not involve the purchase of new materials. His work has always been very much about materiality, the joy of the haptic process experienced through the exploration of materials and processes, very much informed by thorough historical, technical and visual research via the sheer sensuous experience of drawing.
Hilary Mayo, Landscape Vessel, Grey, 2023
Hilary Mayo, Blackshore Vessel With Corrugations, 2022
Let Hilary Mayo introduce you to the geology and topography of the Suffolk coast, a place she frequented, and been inspired by, for over twenty years. A place where the flat land meets big open skies, with a beguiling beauty all of its’ own. Hillary's practise responds to observed details in the landscape, with an impressionistic response to place and experience.
Erosion is a constant theme of this exposed, ancient landscape. The elements constantly, battering, wearing, sculpting; leaving their mark. Cliffs crumble at an alarming rate, producing an ever changing coastline. Peeling paint, and rust, adorn fishermen huts and boats. Unyielding flint has its’ edges smoothed, and wooden groynes decay into figurative forms, slowly worn by the flux and flow of the tide.
Daphne Krinos, Harvest Earrings, 2023
Where the city meets the sea, fine jeweller Daphne Krinos, originally from Greece, but now working in London, is known for her bold and architectural designs, which accentuate the sparkling vivid colours of the translucent stones she uses. Dramatic articulated or layered compositions combine angular, geometric forms in a mixture of metals. Daphne creates unique, one-off pieces entirely by hand, working with recycled gold, black oxidised silver and precious gemstones. Daphne loves gold for its light absorbing quality when it is unpolished. When silver is used, it is usually heavily oxidised, reminiscent of ironwork, giving her jewellery a graphic, drawing-like quality.
Rosa Wiland Holmes, Medium Porcelain Vessel, 2023
Rosa Wiland Holmes, Medium Porcelain Moon Jar, 2023
Let Rosa Wiland Holmes show you the beauty of nature that characterised her childhood on the island of Bornholm in Denmark. Rosa plays with the contrast in dark and light, smooth and rough like the sweeping waves, rocky cliffs, or the smoothness of a stone on the beach. Layers of colour tones, textures and happy accidents that make each piece unique.
