Mixed laminated clays, dry textured surface in contrasting colours of pale grey, brown, pink, blue and yellow, with natural tears and fissures to the convoluted form
H 46.2cm, W 42.5cm, D 35.8cm
Provenance: The Makepeace Collection
Bonhams, New Bond Street, International Contemporary Ceramics, 24 May 2006, Lot 303
CONDITION: In good stable condition, some small minor points of delamination as a result of the making process, a fine hairline to one point, possibly stabilised.
Available for sale: £4,200 inclusive
About the artist
Ewen Henderson was born in Staffordshire and after he served his national service in the RAF, began to pursue an artist career, when in 1964 he undertook a foundation course at Goldsmith’s College, London. It was here that he was first seduced by clay and after a year at Goldsmith’s he enrolled at Camberwell School of Art, London to study ceramics under, amongst others, Hans Coper and Lucy Rie. In direct contrast to the works of Coper and Rie, Henderson chose to explore the possibilities of hand-building, finding greater dynamic potential in asymmetry. Pushing the boundaries between sculpture and craft, Henderson established an international reputation and became one of Britain's foremost ceramic artists to emerge in the 1960s. His work, characterised by rough, dry surfaces made of mixtures of clay coloured with oxides and stains, continually developed as his vessels became increasingly organic and sculptural.
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