Jessica harrison

For many, the ceramic work of Scotland based artist Jessica Harrison is initially shocking. Harrison alters these figures with a stomach-turning realism. Ceramic figurines, the type that are ubiquitous in antique shops and thrift stores, seem gravely injured, even mutilated. Georgian and Victorian-era idyllic figures of women appear to be subjected to an awful violence. For all of the extreme alterations performed on the figurines, however, Harrison leaves the saccharine facial expressions…

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There must have been thousands of these figurines perched on shelves, mantelpieces and end tables in suburban households across the land. I know my grandmother had about half-a-dozen of these porcelain figurines of fair-skinned women lifting the hem of their dresses that mysteriously billowed like a sail from some absent breeze. Some held poesies or baskets crammed with yellow daffodils and roses. They were difficult to keep clean. Dust clung limpet-like in tufts. My grandmother accidentally…

check it out! i am partial to a little bit of gore at times. especially when used playfully and with humour. edinburgh based ceramicist and sculptor jessica harrison, has absolutely nailed…