This August , The Scottish Gallery presents Uncertain Cadence by ceramicist Kirsten Coelho .
KIRSTEN COELHO
UNCERTAIN CADENCE
28 JULY – 27 AUGUST 2022
Working in porcelain , Coelho creates functional forms and vessels that attempt to fuse the formal with the abstract . Her work has been influenced by the history of ceramics , in particular the aging surfaces of nineteenth and early twentieth-century domestic metal , glass and ceramic objects – jugs , flasks , bowls , beakers – echoes of the pleasures of daily life which she reiterates in meditations on the history , purity and order of daily rituals and routines .
Having returned to Australia from London in the late 1990s , Coelho ’ s concern with the formal archetypes of the historical household turned to the nineteenthcentury Australian settler and migrant experience . The extraordinary dreams , ambitions and failings of these experiences are referenced in the luscious thick white glazes and pared back simplicity of Coelho ’ s works , which consider how objects and art shape history and cultural memory .
THE ART OF LUXURY Issue 53 2022