Pots by Lucie Rie in Crafts Study Centre collection
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This work came out of an invitation to have a solo show at Crafts Study Centre. and to work in response to the collection. My response to the collection started with the idea of investigating the work of Lucie Rie, a process disrupted by the onset of the Covid Pandemic and becoming a reflection on uncertain times.
The work references Ries' use of sgraffito, her mixing of coloured clays, her use of distinctive colour palettes; a bright yellow, a strong blue, pink, glazes with a metallic sheen. The idea of centering oneself (much as a potter centres clay on the wheel) became a component of the work, a reflection of the nature of the times and on the indeterminates that destabilise the context of production. |
In her introduction to the show, Professor Lesley Millar writes;
'Caroline's pieces responding to 'Rie's work, demonstrate the essence of her overall approach, that of setting up oppositional forces. In this case that of containment alongside a sense of a compressed, fugitive force. When the biologist D'Arcy Thompson described that it is possible to see in the form the forces that are acting upon it or have acted upon it in the past, he could have been looking at Caroline Bartlett's work - the edges fairly vibrate with the energy caught within and between the pleats. '
'Caroline's pieces responding to 'Rie's work, demonstrate the essence of her overall approach, that of setting up oppositional forces. In this case that of containment alongside a sense of a compressed, fugitive force. When the biologist D'Arcy Thompson described that it is possible to see in the form the forces that are acting upon it or have acted upon it in the past, he could have been looking at Caroline Bartlett's work - the edges fairly vibrate with the energy caught within and between the pleats. '
Stitch resist, pleated linen, some with woven centres of silk and cotton. Assorted sizes. the largest having a diameter of 50 cms
Homage V - 50 cms diameter
Homage VI - 50 cms diameter
Homage VIII - 45 x 54 cms
Homage III - 41 cms diameter
