Sophie Woodrow is a ceramic artist who mainly works with porcelain. Her artwork is hand crafted, focusing on intricate details, humanistic animals merged with natural looking forms.
"Her work has been informed by an interest in the Victorians as the first generation who chose to define nature in opposition to what is human. In a spirit of wild curiosity, tinged with fear, the Victorians idolised nature, ‘packaging’ it into highly romanticised, palatable works of art. Our modern-day understanding is very different, so that we now interpret much Victorian art as ‘unnatural’ or kitsch" (source).
Woodrow's work strays away from the 'norm' by utilising unnatural proportions, combining animals with human-like forms and the inclusion of a distinctive decorative style which contains patterns, textures and shapes. For example branch-like extensions, tentacles, barnacle-like texture, hats, human hands. Some of her pieces also lack limbs which reinforces the unnatural style which is both charming and uncomfortable, setting her work aside as her own.
I find this work highly inspiring due to the interesting forms, proportions and neglecting the realism side to ceramic arts. I am a beginner and it would be unrealistic to assume I would be able to produce something which mimics the real life beluga whale. On the contrary, I would prefer to create distinctive work which eventually will evolve into ceramics that could be traced back to my name, experimenting with patterns and shapes during modelling will give me more experience and push me to create unique and interesting pieces which fit the demographic and can be included within a brand, which is eventually where I would like to take the brief.
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