When I first saw Sophie Woodrow’s ceramics on The Jealous Curator, I instantly fell in love. The mysterious, highly-textured characters and their vacant eyes intrigued me. I like that she’s cloaked her figures in all white and relies on light and shadow to highlight their subtle details.
If are you wondering about Woodrow’s inspiration for these bizarre characters, then look no further:
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.
(Via The Jealous Curator)
