Katharine Morling is a ceramic artist who pushes the boundaries of her medium. Her sculptures are not your typical vases or bowls. Instead, Morling creates three-dimensional porcelain pieces that resemble black-and-white drawings. These sculptures depict everyday objects, people, and animals, all imbued with a sense of emotion and narrative.
Morling’s work is a delicate dance between the two-dimensional world of drawing and the three-dimensional world of sculpture. Her porcelain drawings come to life, literally leaping off the page and into our physical space. The use of porcelain, a material traditionally associated with delicacy and beauty, further reinforces the interplay between fragility and strength in her work.
Each of Morling’s sculptures is part of a larger story. By combining drawing and sculpture, she is able to create works that are both visually arresting and emotionally resonant. Her art invites viewers to contemplate the stories behind the objects and people she depicts, and to find their own meaning in her work.
My work can be described as 3-dimensional drawings. Each piece, on the surface, an inanimate object, has been given layers of emotion and embedded with stories, which are open for interpretation. The works I create are pieces of narrative in my progressing story, one piece leads to the next and I work very instinctively. My work represents my inner searching, shown outwardly in domestic and uncanny scenes. I have to trust and believe that I can communicate through this medium. The works that I make are pieces of narrative which are a progressing story leading on from my last works, the journey continues. My work is the physically manifestation of my inner searching shown outwardly in domestic and uncanny scenes.
Katharine Morling
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