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Title: Kirsten Coelho
Author: WALKER WENDY
Illustrator: COEHLO KIRSTEN
Format: HARDCOVER
Imprint: WAKEFIELD
Price: $54.95
Publishing status: Active
Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain creating functional forms and vessels of a distilled and otherworldly perfection, which represent her preferred fusion of the formal with the abstract. Deeply grounded in North-Asian ceramic history and the powerful legacy of the British studio movement,
her refined interpretations of humble domestic wares nevertheless possess a distinctly contemporary and Australian sensibility. In Kirsten Coelho, the first major publication on a practice spanning thirty years, images of Coelho’s impeccable vessels are interleaved with
fragments of poetry and reproductions of paintings by Jean-BaptisteSiméon Chardin, Russell Drysdale and Vilhelm Hammershøi.
In a series of essays, author Wendy Walker traces the evolution of Coelho’s textured practice, in which an ever-expanding framework of art historical, literary and cinematic references has driven a succession of formal
shifts – a shaping of changes
ISBN: 9781743057469