Elizabeth Fritsch's pots are a conversation between surface and volume, the joining of physical space and the illusion of altered dimensions. Her Blown Away Vase; Collision of Particles is a new addition to the Sainsbury Centre collection, it marks an important development in the story of studio pottery towards the abstraction of the vessel. This pot, as with much of Fritsch's work, is an argument for what a vessel could be and tests our assumptions and expectations. Away from functional, domestic, decorative wares, Fritsch's pots become sites for experimentation and the communication of meaning, whilst interrogating the long relationship between clay and the vessel. For, arguably, in no other medium is a material and a form so intrinsically linked.
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