July 2011: more mad miniatures ...... are now on display at my new blog. Comments, critiques and ideas are all very welcome. March 2011: "Obscure Histories" exhibition
My two-year art collaboration with Swiss sculptor Adriana Hartley to create nineteen 'illuminated' sculptures was a great success. We were delighted by so many visitors' very interested responses and the fact that so many also decided to own our artworks. It is a special honour that the nationally renowned Swiss ceramics museum, Musée Ariana, acquired our largest piece! The miniature-painting technique I used is like that used in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscript decoration, but I painted the images onto Adriana's dark, pearly stoneware sculptures instead of paper or parchment. The exhibition was held in the Galerie Marianne Brand in Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2011. An article about our painted sculptures, by art historian Sophie Wirth-Brentini, is published in New Ceramics Issue 2, 2011.
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