True Blue Cup and Saucer
Stephen Bowers
Details
- Artist
- Stephen Bowers
- Title
- True Blue Cup and Saucer
- Year
- 2009
- Medium
- wheel-thrown earthenware, underglaze colour, clear glaze
- Size
- 29 x 80 cm
- Details
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Exhibited
Stephen Bowers, Larks Tongues in Aspic, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 27 November - 18 December 2010
The Elements Within Sculpture, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 4 June -16 July 2011
Stephen Bowers: Jamais Vu, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 12 Nov - 10 Dec 2016, cat. no.27
Further Information
As a kind of stalking horse for his inventive decoration, Bowers uses familiar forms – chargers, cups and saucers, vases, Staffordshire ornaments. Apart from the latter, they are useful and practical domestic shapes. What Bowers often does with the form is to modify it – usually by enlargement, sometimes dramatically so. This magnification has the strange effect of creating a disconnect from the original while also implying that the object is to be looked at through a lens of aesthetic history. When he does adhere to original scale, the richness of decoration and jewel-like detail seem to make the work larger than it really is.
Christopher Menz, September 2016, with thanks to Stephen Bowers for his assistance.
View the full catalogue essay here