Jessica harrison porcelain

from restorer to ruiner, we visit Penny Byrne, the Melbourne artist subverting kitsch ceramics...

In a kind of haute carnage,Jessica Harrison takes found porcelain dolls and alters them in ghastly, macabre ways...

check it out! i am partial to a little bit of gore at times. especially when used playfully and with humour. edinburgh based ceramicist and sculptor jessica harrison, has absolutely nailed…

“Gruesomely manipulated, found porcelain figurines by Jessica Harrison.”

There must have been thousands of these figurines perched on shelves, mantelpieces and end tables in suburban households across the land. I know my grandmother had about half-a-dozen of these porcelain figurines of fair-skinned women lifting the hem of their dresses that mysteriously billowed like a sail from some absent breeze. Some held poesies or baskets crammed with yellow daffodils and roses. They were difficult to keep clean. Dust clung limpet-like in tufts. My grandmother accidentally…