Australian based ceramic artist Laurie Melia creates illustration inspired pieces. Embracing the humor of the characters created many can also serve as a pot for plants. See some selected works below:
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Lincoln Vignette by Linda Cordell
Sculpture Linda Cordell creates a morbid porcelaine vignette figure of Abraham Lincoln with flesh hanging from his shoulders as an eager rat approaches. See porcelain statue below: “Socially awkward and full of repressed anger, I anesthetize myself spending mindless hours carving detailed texture on humorous and/or uncomfortable animal sculptures. A child of the revisionist era, my work reinterprets the figurine enabling animals to break the chains of cuteness and noble savagery. An appreciation of the ridiculous, a love of beauty and skilled craftsmanship, and the belief that domestic objects are social propaganda all contribute to my work.”
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Good China, Dresses by artist Li Xiaofeng
Something delicate and beautifully shattered is repurposed into sculptural fashion. Artist Li Xiaofeng transforms fragments of ancient ceramics from the Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty, and Qing dynasty into striking wearable art. Each shard is carefully arranged and linked together, forming glistening, intricately patterned dresses that blur the line between artifact and avant garde couture. It is fragile, historic, and boldly reimagined.