About
Nicola Tassie originally studied painting at Central School of Art in the 1980s, but soon after diversified into ceramics. Her work incorporates thrown tableware, wall-based projections, and large-scale sculpture installations. Rather than sitting in opposition to each other, these disparate strands coexist in a continuous loop of exchange, evolution and inquiry. Ideas of utility exist as both concept and practice – her Lighting series consists of lamps as sculptures, and as functioning designs. Materials and processes transition seamlessly across the surface of a jug onto a wall-mounted ‘clay canvas’. Domestic ware forms are amalgamated into composite sculptures that are either stacked into tall multi-glazed towers or sit horizontally, echoing landscaped pathways or ‘stone walls’, literally and figuratively elevating everyday objects into totemic form.
Image courtesy of Max Ford
