Salon Show 3, 6 Malvern Terrace, Islington

4- 6 April 2025

Friday 4 April, 4pm to 7pm, Saturday 5 April, 12 noon to 6pm, Sunday 6 April, 12 noon to 5pm

Artists: Emily Mitchell, Matthew Richardson, Helena Lacy and Emily Stapleton Jefferis.

The four artists featured are interested in the tension between the functional and sculptural in ceramics. From useable candelabra, cups and vases to purely sculptural wall reliefs, with an area inbetween, where a sculpture looks as if it could have a function (for example Matthew Richardson’s Fire Dog), these artists’ all acknowledge the interesting position that ceramics hold within contemporary art today.

An online shop update with all available works will be made at 9am on Saturday 5 April. For all other enquiries email:

hello@carolinefisherprojects.org

Matthew Richardson is an artist who works in ceramic and collage. He is interested in how things fragment through the passage of time - what is lost, what remains and what leaves a trace. The works are whimsical, sinuous and curious, with glaze and decoration that suggests English decorated tableware as well as studio pottery.

Emily Mitchell hand makes functional work with a high level of detail and finish, inspired by historic English ceramics and literature. Her aim is to create emotionally loaded ‘souvenir’ objects, often using text from poetry to suggest a narrative meaning for her work.

Helena Lacy is a London based ceramic maker who creates sculptural and functional ceramic artworks. Her pieces emulate nature’s patterns and use the kiln as a collaborator to embrace a degree of unpredictability. She sees some of her pieces as furniture, for example footstools and shelves, which have another life as sculpture.

Emily Stapleton Jefferis is an artist and educator who makes ceramic sculptures that relate to natural forms, in particular sea life and fungi. Through her work, she draws attention to the overlooked in natural forms, their beauty and strangeness. Her candelabra can be seen as purely sculptural as well as functional.