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Olivia Avery
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Olivia C. Avery
Olivia Avery
Memphis,
TN
Medium:
Ceramics New to Artclectic
“I am embarking down a path to bring us back to connection, nature, and harmony,” says Olivia Avery, a working artist for the past three and a half years. “My work asks the viewer to slow down, to participate in the moment and pay attention to time passing by. I believe our connection to nature holds this same effect. As many of us spend our time inside, my goal is to bring the outdoors in.
“I use intricate plant motifs on functional pottery to put leaves or tree rings into our hands and up to our mouths. My work and my being are fueled by nature in surface and the human body in form. This body of work is predominantly wheel thrown, hand painted, slip and underglaze trailed. The relationship between humans and nature, especially plants, has always astounded me.”
Get to know Olivia better:
Our theme this year is Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. In the creation of your pieces, can you point to any examples where you follow these practices?
In my opinion hand making dishes is more sustainable than mass machine made dishes. These also encourage use of ceramic pieces of things like plastic and to go ware. Within my own studio practices, I take as many measures as I can reusing and recycling things like clay, glaze materials, water, all packing materials, and buying second hand my storing and display furniture.
If you could be any artist in the world, who would you choose to be?
Two answers: Claude Monet - Being one of the fathers of impressionism and having the ability to see real life in an artistic way outside of what you've been taught or what anyone knows is incredible. Georgia O'Keeffe - I feel kinship with her often in terms of subject matter in my work and the understanding and appreciation of the natural world around us. Her ideas and perseverance being a female throughout art history is inspirational to say the very least. Again, a front runner through art movements so important in Art at large today.
Titles of works can be descriptive or clever or totally unrelated. What's your favorite title of a piece you've named?
"Clawing at Peace"
This is my favorite because it was what I was doing the duration of creating the pieces and I didn’t realize! I was telling everyone I was okay but I was clawing at and for peace and I still couldn’t grasp it. I was physically ill with unrest and stress. Upon completing these, what I thought would be organically soft and beautiful abstract sculptures, I took a step back and realized I had made giant abstract claws! There was nothing soft about them and they were quite hard to look at.
