The artwork depicts a pair of whimsical ceramic sculptures resembling sandals. The sculptures feature sinuous, abstract shapes in a pale, iridescent glaze, with contrasting navy-blue accents. The forms suggest a playful, organic quality, evoking a sense of movement and fluidity. The artist's technique showcases a masterful blend of functionality and artistic expression, blurring the lines between everyday objects and sculptural elements. This piece exemplifies the contemporary artist's ability to transform mundane items into thought-provoking works that invite the viewer to reconsider the boundaries between art and everyday life. ...
Holly Stevenson’s sculptural practice intertwines ceramics with psychoanalytic theory, exploring themes of gender, identity, and the body. Her work often employs ovular forms to represent the female and cylindrical, phallic shapes to represent the male, creating a unique figurative language that delves into issues of femininity and sexuality. Stevenson’s ceramics serve as both vessels and metaphors, reimagining everyday objects to reflect on personal and collective narratives. A notable aspect of Stevenson’s practice is her reinterpretation of everyday objects as gendered symbols, transforming forms to explore the fluidity of bodily metaphors. Her work examines how domestic and personal items can carry layers of meaning related to identity, power, and embodiment. Stevenson’s work is informed by her experiences as a mother, feminist, and woman from a working-class background, which filter into pieces that oscillate between the figurative and the abstract. She draws daily, allowing intuition and spontaneity to shape her forms, creating ceramics that engage viewers in reflection on the body, gender, and social constructs. ...
Pi Artworks is an international contemporary art gallery with spaces in London and Istanbul. Its mission is to offer a diverse and active programme that initiates social change. Pi Artworks was founded in Istanbul in 1998. By moving to London in 2013, Pi Artworks wanted to make connections, explore “shared histories”, and bridge artists from different geographies. Pi Artworks London is located in Fitzrovia in the heart of London's West End. Pi Artworks Istanbul gallery relocated to PIyalepasa in close proximity to Arter Museum, with a 350 sq mt. space designed by Polat Group. Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the aim of allowing their work to grow in terms of new projects and exhibitions. Pi Artworks now represents a total of eighteen international artists, two-thirds of whom are female. The gallery is also a member of London Collective, and IGA (International Galleries Alliance). ...
