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Blue back without wings
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Icarus Sculpture

Emma Plunkett

Spain

Sculpture, Ceramic on Ceramic

Size: 17.7 W x 23.6 H x 7.9 D in

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The beautiful blue durable stoneware clay back sculpture can happily be hung outdoors by two hooks. The wings can be made from two branches that tie on, I include the fabric, which can be draped on but there's no point shipping the branches. They can be sourced locally from a flower shop or a forest. The fabric can decay like prayer flags in all weather. I would just tie more fabric on every year or so. The back also looks good without the wings. This androgynous Icarus sculpture is cast from a woman. This Icarus is already falling, with expressive movement of the back. This whole piece is about finding out our human limits – flying to close the sun or playing too near the edge (whatever that may represent for you). He/She has already been flying too close to the sun and the wings are in tatters now and Icarus falls! I finalised this piece in the gallery situation. The other artists were dallying around, so I thought I would too. The morning of the exhibition opening, I went up to a friends garden to select some long quince branches for the wings. The wings I had previously made, were small and just not substantial enough. However I left them on as well, as a kind of an insect like bi-wing. I pruned the long branches and wrapped them in some frayed fabric remnants I got hold of, from some worn out giant flags from Glastonbury festival. I chose the coppery colour to compliment the blue glaze of the back. The wings were originally designed to go high up a long tall wall or across a wide wall. It was the curator, Gareth’s idea to have them coming into the room of the gallery – which I really like. The whole piece is about finding out our human limits - flying too close the sun, or playing too near the edge (whatever that may represent for you).

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Ceramic on Ceramic

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17.7 W x 23.6 H x 7.9 D in

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Emma Plunkett is a contemporary artist known for her unique and expressive style. Her art often combines vibrant colours, organic shapes and intricate details to create captivating and original compositions. From 1995 – 2020, Emma worked intensively as a VJ (video projection artist) under the name Miss Plunkett. Emma is of 100% Irish decent, born and educated in London. She has a degree in Fine Art from the University of East London. Throughout the 1990's and early 2000's, Emma exhibited her art and live video mixing in London. In 2002, after short creative stints in Barcelona, Ibiza and then Amsterdam, Emma continued her journey south to the province of Granada, in the south of Spain. She continued to video project and exhibit on the Costa Tropical, Granada and in the local community of Órgiva. She also ventured to show her work in Málaga and on the Costa del Sol. Emma moved to Barcelona in 2020, where she now lives and works – concentrating on stoneware sculpture, video and oil painting. Emma has a life-long unwavering devotion to art. The underlying sentiment in Emma's artwork is about the female experience from a woman's perspective. Her work is ever evolving as she experiments and explores ways to portray the female nude in a manner which is both genuine and empowering.

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