The dignity of Virginia Scotchie's ceramic sculpture is deceptively complex, conveying time and sensation with wit and restraint. It is a skilful achievement for a conceptual artist to yield such compassionate and accessible forms.Like excavated relics, Scotchie's sculptures feel important. They are ageless objects with attributes resistant to obvious classification. As easily dredged from the depths of the sea as tumbled to earth from outer space, the metallic surfaces can suggest both the faded opulence of a vanished era and the glow of modern technology. The crusty glazes can be sprouting organic matter or a corrosive collapse. Punctures and craters can be natural or mechanical with openings small and restraining or wide and inviting, a breadth of interpretation that is essential to the work.
展开▼
