Lisa Clague's characteristic figurative sculpture hovers between fantasy and reality - playful, mysterious, contemplative. "My work evokes a place between the subconscious and the intangible," notes Lisa Clague. "My masked figures are hybrid beings, masters of ambiguity and disguise, seduction and deception. These images, like dreams, are familiar but illusory." In the 1980s, Lisa Clague literally ...

A series of sculptures by renowned contemporary artist Urs Fischer is a kind of monument to impermanence, transformation, the flow of time, the changes happening to our world and creative destruction. "Dasha" (2018) is a life-size wax candle depicting Dasha Zhukova, a friend of Urs Fischer and renowned gallery owner. Entirely cast in wax, she is dressed in a pink dress and sitting on a chair. The wick on the ...

Victoria Ellis' signature response to the popular decorative style of the early 20th century presents us with bas-reliefs and sculptures made with great reverence for the original objects. The artist employs a special technique of 'carving' into clay, similar to the way openwork cut-outs are made from paper. Art Deco, sometimes called deco, is a style of fine art, architecture and design that first appeared ...

Robert Cooper is an established ceramic artist who is widely recognised in the UK and beyond. He is fascinated by the vitality of artefacts and the large role they play in art. Robert's work often utilises found objects, such as pottery shards from the banks of the Thames, which are imbued with previous life. Such finds become the basis for a new project. В ...