Dawn Vachon
Dawn Vachon — 'Underpin Upper', Sculptural Ceramic
Underpin Upper is a ceramic sculpture consisting of a soft lumpy 'body' and supporting leg elements. Using mid-fired clay and glaze materials, Underpin Upper combines the techniques of coil building and pinching. Each pinch mark adds texture and a documentation of time and process. This piece is one of several ongoing explorations that starts with the idea of contrasting the lightness of clouds - ever gently shifting in form and colour- to the ceramic materials themselves; heavy, permanent and shifting poetically only when inside the closed box of the kiln. The work is not a comment on the weather, but instead a use of a form that everyone sees and is able to see something in.
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Dawn Vachon is a Canadian born ceramic artist and potter living in Coburg (Melbourne/Naarm). Dawn works with both wheel throwing and hand building techniques, on a range of ceramic pieces from everyday functional through to decorative and purely sculptural. Her practice explores the freedom and constraints of the ceramic medium and materials. Although undeniably Ceramic, through collaboration with heat she also endeavors to enlist the tension of an element of the ephemeral.
Dawn received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver) in 2008. Her work was highly commended at the North Queensland Ceramic Art Awards, 2018, and was acquired by the Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD, in 2016.
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Materials: ceramic, slip, glaze
Dimensions: approx. 36 x 39 x 24cm