Collections Online

Sculpture, soft-paste porcelain with clear glaze, comprises a heavily cracked monumental rectangular plinth surmounted by a writhing mass of modelled and collaged organic forms that are both identifiable (human limbs) and ambiguous fragments that resemble folded pieces of skin, flowers and tendrils, bones and sinews, and other natural forms; covered over much of the surface with a clear glaze, with unglazed surfaces also apparent.

Rachel Kneebone’s extraordinary sculptures combine the expressive power of porcelain and its fragile nature. The surface is alive with sensuously modelled body parts emerging from torn and twisted porcelain. The cracks left by the artist remind us of the risks involved in firing porcelain and, perhaps, of our own vulnerability as humans.