Nika Stupica, Studio Kaolin
From teardrops to candy
This jewellery is part of my work with porcelain, essentially a side street full of interesting hidden corners. In miniature design I am also interested in surface, in texture. This time I used coloured porcelain, a play of tiny dots and lines covering the surface of each individual, hand-formed porcelain bead. The raw, unglazed surface of the beads reminds me of candy ice for confectionery decoration. The necklace is classically made where porcelain beads strung in a messy pattern. The whiteness, the translucency, the apparent fragility of the porcelain fascinates me. The tiny bells, glazed, smooth, made using a plaster mould, are part of this fascination. Arranged in bunches, they are the tears that ring at our ears at every step.
This jewellery is part of my work with porcelain, essentially a side street full of interesting hidden corners. In miniature design I am also interested in surface, in texture. This time I used coloured porcelain, a play of tiny dots and lines covering the surface of each individual, hand-formed porcelain bead. The raw, unglazed surface of the beads reminds me of candy ice for confectionery decoration. The necklace is classically made where porcelain beads strung in a messy pattern. The whiteness, the translucency, the apparent fragility of the porcelain fascinates me. The tiny bells, glazed, smooth, made using a plaster mould, are part of this fascination. Arranged in bunches, they are the tears that ring at our ears at every step.
I graduated in ceramics at the Pedagogical Academy in Ljubljana. After my formal education, I attended many workshops in the field of ceramics, where I continued my in-depth learning. I have participated in numerous exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. Among others, I participated in the European Ceramic Context exhibition and in the artist in residence programme in Bornholm, Denmark, at the ceramics department of the Royal Danish Academy. I work mainly with porcelain, mostly utilitarian ceramics. I prefer to focus on the surface, not so much the form. I am interested in relief, texture, translucency ... and I draw inspiration from the world around me: nature, leaves, flowers, pebbles on the ground, twisted branches, an old crumbling building facade, different colours of the earth, an interesting fabric pattern ...
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