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Art the Plate - Artist Designs
We're grateful to the talented artists based in and around Sydney. They demonstrate how limitless imagination can be. Even on something
as simple as a plate.
Lucy Donnelly
Lucy Donnelly is a self-taught painter living in Sydney. "Capitalising on the recent cult popularity of the bird, I thought the humble ibis was overdue for a respectful ceramic portrait."
Samantha Tsang
Samantha Tsang is a Sydney based artist, specialising in pen and ink illustration based off video games and popular culture. "I always enjoy branching out into new artforms and working under different briefs, as at the end of the day, it all culminates into a deeper love for art. I am blessed with the ability to express emotions and to reconstruct memories through art, and thus my greatest motivation is knowing the lasting impact my pieces have in inspiring others to create and to also reflect on past experiences and memories."
Amanda Dwight
Amanda Dwight is a developing artist based in Sydney with multidiciplinary interests, particularly in performance art, ceramics and culinary arts. In collaboration with artist Ella Byrne, they recently launched a new experimental dining performance series called Strange Table. https://www.strangetable.com
Alexander Veddovi-McCaughan
Alex Veddovi-McCaughan is a freelance multidisciplinary artist/graphic designer with a passion for graphic art, manga, Buddhist art and illustration. He is “a third culture kid” whose life experiences embody a melding of Eastern and Western culture depicted often in his works. Through drawing in either material or digital mediums Alex’s work is a representation of the countries he grew up in. By means of symbolism or patterning associated with those countries he hopes people can see his migration.
Connie Pan
Connie Pan is a Sydney-based artist with a penchant for 国画 (traditional Chinese painting). 国画 themes and techniques are clearly displayed in her artwork: in the delicate brushstrokes, the humble colour tones, the spiritual absorption, and the harmonious and circular congruence of nature. "Sit among the lotus flowers. Meditate to the ripples magnifying from the swirl of a goldfish's tail. Breathe in the fragrant ramen broth mingled against the blossom-scented breeze. Rest awhile in my Chinese garden."
Sinead Condell
Mahmood Hussain
Mahmood lives in Sydney and enjoys drawing, although he hasn't painted on ceramics before. He inconsistently dabbles in art, but consistently enjoys it when he does. This bowl is an eclectic assortment of images that flew into Mahmood's mind when he thought about ramen.
Giorgia De Biasi
De Biasi uses performative practices to consider the paradox of measuring the immeasurable. Her process-oriented work is often driven by chance, situating forms of navigation and communication within real and imagined landscapes. De Biasi’s works encode subjective or inner experience using the language of physical and quantitative processes. In this piece (titled STRONG FINISH) De Biasi says “The top step on the podium — and the champagne — belongs to the driver who crosses the finish line first. Some never do, while others have made the winner’s circle their home. In this circuit I seek respite, or is it a reconciliation, in a world that we can touch and see”.
Alyssa Kulyk
Alyssa Kulyk is an artist and designer currently based in the Sutherland Shire. “This piece depicts two anthropomorphic frogs happily sharing a meal together, an image inspired by images and stories in folklore and fairy tales. The aim of this piece is simple, to bring a smile to the viewer and encourage living in the moment and enjoying the simple pleasure of sharing a meal with a friend or loved one. Working on this ceramic bowl was a totally new experience for me, as someone who mainly works digitally, aside from printmaking and crafting jewellery, overall it was a fun and rewarding experience.”
Gabby Malpas
Gabby Malpas works with liquid colour on paper, canvas and clay, challenging the genre of Chinoiserie with her own narrative. Malpas is an exhibiting and licensed artist from NZ, currently residing in Sydney. "‘Herrings’ is a whimsical piece inspired by previous works on paper, modified to compliment the form and properties of this ramen bowl".
Christopher Zanko
Christopher Zanko is an artist from Wollongong who works primarily in wood block carving and painting. "I wanted to paint something that contrasted with the organic nature of how the bowl was crafted."
Claire Low
Claire Low is an Australian-born Chinese-Thai artist who spent the pandemic drawing graphite on paper works every day. "Why are pop culture's most famous mermaids usually redheads or blondes? Where are the Asian mermaids? Representation matters, even if you’re mythical.”
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