Kerryn Levy

This work is part of Kerryn Levy’s exhibition, 'After I Fall Down the Stairs at the Golden Temple'.

Sasy Levy: "This collection of work embodies that kind of moment. Formed in the throes of early motherhood when time folds, identity blurs, and words escape. These sculptures represent gestures of steadiness and surrender. While the chaos of life continued at the edges, in the quiet of my studio, I worked steadily with my hands. Clay has always been an anchor: physical, immediate, and insistently present, a mediative experience as I roll and attach coil upon coil.

"These forms have an inherent connection to the human body that formed them and the landscape from which they came. The story of its creation is written on the surface of each piece. Fingerprints, thumb movements and soft cuts mark the clay with a kind of anatomical cartography of ridges, creases, spines and slopes. There’s movement in the surfaces – a fluidity in the glazes and lustres that ripple with light and shadow. These are bodies in space: clustered like strangers at a bus stop, or at temple. These forms carry a weight, but in their negative space, new, quieter forms can be found."