Natures Candy
Natures Candy explores the tangled relationship between our food, our health and our battles against temptations to make healthy choices. It is a celebration of Feijoas and Mandarins, both delicious and healthy winter fruits. They are represented in their beautiful natural colours, which then begin to wander off into tempting pastels suggesting the loss of resolve that can result when seduced by the rainbow of artificially beautified foods avaliable to us.
earthern ware, burnished
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Elise O'NeillHello, I am a Ceramic artist working from my home studio in Dunedin. I studied at Otago Polytechnic School of Art and graduated in 2006 with a BFA sculputure major. Since finishing my degree my practice has followed two main paths. In one direction I have been making ceramic sculpture which explores consumerism and culture, i am especially interested in food and our love/hate, need/want relationship with it.
The other direction is a collaborative project with designer Karen Taylor O'Neill. Together we have designed and are producing (in my home studio) an artisan range of domestic ware.
The more i learn about Ceramics the more i realize there is to know. Its a complex, exciting and surprising medium and i am seduced by its versatility, functionality and beauty.
