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Katherine GlendayUntitled VI2024
2024
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From ancient times, the materiality of clay has presented itself as a metaphor for human self-transformation. In recent decades, visual artists have leveraged this metaphor to explore the boundaries of visual art through creative experimentation. This has led to the development of innovative techniques and styles that push the limits of materiality and artistic expression. ‘Compressing Materiality’ brings to the fore notable artists exploring the mutable materiality of clay within the contemporary South African context.
Existing in multiple temporalities and forms, both malleable and fragile, clay draws on various transformational agents to reflect culture and history—serving as a repository of collective memory and heritage. Its enduring materiality transcends temporal and spatial boundaries, fostering dialogue and understanding across diverse cultural landscapes. In the hands of an artist, clay transcends its inert state, undergoing metamorphosis through the alchemy of skill, imagination, and fire.
By demanding physical engagement—a communion between hand and material—the artwork is imbued with an innate vitality. Clay moulds, sculpts, and shapes, yielding to the artist's will, yet simultaneously asserting its own agency. It captures the essence of transformation, mirroring the perpetual flux of existence, a practice which emerges from working with the earth and mirroring nature in its process, best described in the reflections of artist Katherine Glenday, who shares:
Creativity is an open-ended and receptive process and to blister and crack, to pour, splash and run are all occurrences implicit in the processes of nature. These expressions have been employed by different makers from all cultures throughout time, and yet it is the personal idiosyncratic signature of each maker which gives the defining aspect that separates one creation from another - even in the midst of a shared humanity.
Glenday’s ‘Untitled VI’, featured as part of this group showcase, exemplifies her unique approach to porcelain vessels. The piece, crafted from a combination of cast porcelain, terracotta, and black metal oxides, adorned with gold lustre, showcases her technical virtuosity and deep engagement with the material, capturing the essence of her artistic philosophy: the interplay between fragility and strength, as well as the transformative power of clay. Through her work, Glenday not only engages with the physicality of clay but also explores broader themes of identity, memory, and the human condition. Her vessels serve as containers of experience, echoing the collective narratives of culture and history.
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