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Other Rad Artists I’ve Met Along the Way

Britny Wainwright, Emily Bayless, Katie Coughlin, Brandi Lee Cooper, Kelly O’Briant, Kristin Willders, Jillian McEvoy, Ana Popescu, Renqian Yang, Clare Burson, Taylor Shantz, Claudia Moreles, Jax Yao, Ashely Campbell, Jillian Blackwell, Mingxuan Tan

In October, I was invited to attend and show work at Tao Xichuan Art Center in Jingdezhen for their annual Fall Arts Fair. I had an amazing time getting to know people from all over the world. Here are some highlights:

Ebony Russell, Sydney, Australia

Piped Dreams explores objects imbued with notions of nostalgia and desire. "Objects can stir memories and are used mnemonically to create, store and retrieve a sense of past", says Ebony. "My work is a response to aspects of my experience, focusing on my personal connection to these objects through childhood memory, identity and contemporary collecting practices".

"As a child I was obsessed with ornaments and anything frilly and pink. Cake decorating was a particular passion of mine and I longed for the most decorative cake on my birthday each year. I want to investigate how these objects and decorative processes have the capacity to evoke memories and engender a return to childhood reverie in adult life. I am interested in exploring decorative practices traditionally performed by women as the main construction method for my practice. Currently the environments and structures I create utilise cake-piping techniques with porcelain, allowing my imaginings and reveries to take shape. These sculptures are teetering on the brink of disaster, often burdened by the weight of their own structure or heavy with gold lustre drips".