Lauren Joffe
Lauren Joffe — 'Equilibrium', Sculptural Vessel
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Lauren Joffe is a ceramic artist born in Cape Town, who immigrated to Melbourne as a child. She studied Fine Art (Gold & Silversmithing) at RMIT and after graduating began her art practice as a contemporary jeweller and object maker, before changing medium to ceramics. Lauren’s work has been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally. She has been a finalist in a number of national and international awards and her work has been acquired by private collectors, RMIT and the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.
She hand builds her pieces, which are often large in scale, and is primarily concerned with exploring the aesthetics of the vessel form and in the surfaces of her pieces through mark making and texture.
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Materials: stoneware, slip, glaze
Dimensions: approx. 31 x 42 x 47cm