And surprisingly through all the haphazard constructions mismatched styles and in nonsense plays on words is.
Philip eglin ceramics for sale.
References are made to an array of sources including northern gothic religious woodcarvings chinese export porcelain english folk ceramics and the language of symbols used on contemporary packaging.
In his exhibition at oxford ceramics gallery sept.
His expressive ceramic works reflect and comment on contemporary culture.
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Philip eglin gibraltar b.
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Eglin has added much to the language of figuration in the last thirty years but his work also encompasses big buckets plates dishes jugs and smaller more intimate tablewares.
In good order and of nice apearance expected fine allover crazing to glaze some minor firing cracks here and there under the glaze child s hand rotates condition disclaimer under the conditions of.
1959 fcuk off madonna 2009 porcelain with gilding incised signature verso eglin 44 5cm high condition report.
1959 i see myself as continuing a strong ceramic tradition of borrowing ideas for both form and surface from examples found in other media i enjoy being flippant and subversive making fusions of seemingly disparate historical and contemporary subjects in an attempt to achieve a balance between the high and the lowbrow the reverent and the irreverent the.
Philip eglin has added much to the language of figuration in the last thirty years but his work also encompasses big buckets plates dishes jugs and smaller more intimate tablewares.
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Marsden woo gallery.
Philip eglin is a master of irreverence.
Frequent use of graffiti elements carry playful references to street culture and his sculptures often incorporate pieces moulded from everyday objects such as coke bottles or throw away plastic.
Philip eglin is represented in the uk by.
Philip eglin s post modern aesthetic draws on many sources from popular culture and ceramic history through to high art and from gothic madonnas to abstract expressionist painters of the 1950s.
Born in gibraltar in 1959 eglin studied ceramics at staffordshire polytechnic and the royal college of art.
17th 2015 the work appears beautifully circumstantial as if he walked into the studio still drunk from the previous night grabbed the closest tools to him and began to create.
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1959 studied at staffordshire polytechnic and the royal college of art.