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Each of these five sculptures by ceramicist Lubna Chowdhary is about half the size of a fist. They were hand modelled from porcelain clay and resemble seed pods. Lubna Chowdhary is a ceramicist who works from her home studio in London, making sculptures, handcrafted tiles, and site-specific works, responding to her environment.

The pods almost look like pendants, with their curved or hooked stalks. There is perhaps an ‘otherworldly’ appearance to them, as though they could have fallen from outer space and there is a suggestion of being part creature, part plant.

The highly decorative style gives the pods a jewel-like quality; the way in which the glazes pool around the bumps and grooves highl...

2000
Glazed earthenware

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