ARTIST BOUKE DE VRIES USES SHATTERED CERAMICS TO CREATE NEW SCULPTURES

 

ARTWORK AND IMAGE: BOUKE DE VRIES

London-based artist Bouke de Vries loves working with shattered ceramics. He refers to some of his porcelain sculptures as "three-dimensional still lifes".

"I compose these pieces as, after the painter has finished with them, the ceramics get broken and decayed, and I breathe new life into them," he tells Colossal.

  

ARTWORK AND IMAGE: BOUKE DE VRIES

The artist started working with porcelain as a restorer for 15 years before he embarked on his own practice, starting with a search for glass shards and broken pottery.

ARTWORK AND IMAGE: BOUKE DE VRIES

He revitalises broken pieces of ceramics by creating new figures that celebrate the beauty of their previous forms.


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