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​Vici Blackburn

This artist is an Island girl, she has lived on the IOM since
the age of 7, coming over on the ferry in a force 9 gale.
Cold, wet and stung by salt she was stunned and
captivated by the power of the sea. Vici’s life became
bound by the rhythms and weather of living on this small
windswept Island. All her work reflects the elemental
nature of this life. Vici’s ceramic art is influenced by the
weatherworn surfaces of the Manx coast and landscape,
and then wrapped with papier-mâché skins. The skins are
inspired by her childhood memory of lovingly
unwrapping jewel like Xmas decorations protected by
ageing newspaper folds. She uses porcelain, which is
press moulded into casts. These repeatedly worked surfaces
of clay are under constant revision, referencing the
endless remaking of the shoreline. They are then sanded,
oxides applied and hand painted with underglaze, glazes
and gold lustre.​

www.viciblackburn.com
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