Pauline Meade - Medium 'Paper Bowl' in Earth Tones

This hand built ceramic bowl echoes the texture and form of paper bowls, elevating the everyday disposable into a lasting object. It can serve food or function sculpturally. 

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Pauline Meade is a ceramic artist based in Melbourne/ Naarm, working from her home studio where she both creates and fires her pieces in an electric kiln.

Pauline predominantly hand builds her sculptural and functional pieces but is skilled on the pottery wheel and continues to use this as a way of modifying and enhancing her work. Using a combination of glazes, oxides and engobes, where the final firing is in a oxidation kiln. The visual palette and the tactile feel comes from a dry landscape and sclerophyll bush of her childhood that she continuously draws from. Pauline is influenced by the artist John Wolseley who lives and draws in this same Pyrenees region of Victoria.

Her most recent work, a series of tableware hand formed and altered on the wheel , is a way of creating a cohesive link between sculptural and functional, both for the table and the wall.

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Material: stoneware, glaze

Dimensions:  6 x 15 x 15cm