Simon Olding - Ceramic Review

There is a strand of work in contemporary craft (as well as in animation) in Britain that accentuates the eccentric through the use of figures: not quite satiric and not quite cartoon. The metal and found object sculptures of Mike Abbott and Ken Ellwood come to mind, as do the ceramics of Jane Muir and to some degree the symbolic work of John Maltby. Jenny Southam's ceramic sculptures occupy this same territory. her figures poised between a gentle reflective gravity and an approachable. quirky humour. They are figures with more than a smile on their faces.

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