by Alison Bigg | Oct 20, 2020 | Current Work, Gallery shows
Gestural Prompt “At times the clay moves so effortlessly that my hands seem to follow, not to initiate, the movements of the clay. I notice an emotion in my hands that seems to connect them with my chest…” Harry Remde from The Art in a Craft, 1975 In the last few...
by Alison Bigg | Apr 10, 2020 | Ceramics, Current Work, Installation, Printmaking
Precarious Circumstance is a tower of sad faces. Sadness is piling up on itself, until one is drowning in sorrow. The ‘sorrow’ face image was found in an old boy scout book of my brother’s after he lost his battle with depression. The cloth legs are holding up...
by Alison Bigg | Nov 1, 2019 | Ceramics, Current Work, Paintings, Printmaking
I have worked with clay on and off for many years. As I struggled with the dreaded wheel, I never thought of pottery as being a part of my art practice. This changed about a year ago when I discovered hand building and paper clay. At the same time I started...
by Alison Bigg | Jan 29, 2019 | Current Work, Soap sculptures
As an incorrigible thrift store devotee, I recently started noticing the abundance of throw-away plaster angels which prompted me to build a collection. I am now incorporating them in my work by using them as an armature for my cast soap sculptures. The result is an...
by Alison Bigg | Jan 30, 2018 | Current Work, Soap sculptures
Since Globular Cluster I’ve been working towards a solo show that will be at the xchanges gallery in May. I am now making my own molds using latex and casting glycerine soap, altering the result by deconstructing and reconceptualizing. It’s a kind of 3D...
