Blue Boy Bookend, 2023 by sculptor Andrew Hill
Work inspired by North Atlantic slave trade Raku paper clay body, turquoise glaze, multi-fired in a reduction gas kiln. 1080c Re-fired in a ferric chloride acid and hard wood saggar. 600c Recycled Karri timber plinth.
11cm x 30cm x 10cm
(all measurements are approximate)
Andrew Hill is an artist specialising in ceramic sculptural forms, focussing on emotional responses and interactions which encourages the observer to imagine past, present and future conversations between the figures and imagined others. The meanings behind the sculptures can be perceived to have both dark and light connotations, often containing fun, love, anxiety, sexual tension, anger, but always drama within their sensitive expressions, form and posture.
