LUCINDA MUDGE
LUCINDA MUDGE, 3 Missed Calls (after Emilio Pucci)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 50 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Never R.I.P (Fight Fight Fight) (after Sonia Delaunay)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 64 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Lookie Lookie II
Ceramic, 57 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Silence is Violence / Turn Up The Music (after Emilio Pucci)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 50 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Let's Get Loud (after Emilio Pucci)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 63 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Turn Up The Music
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 65 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, We'll Never Get Out Alive
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 61 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Another Angry Mob
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 52 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Sorry Sorry
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 41 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, La La Lifestyle
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 54 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Same Old Story
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 57 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, I Remember When We Had Such Fun (after Emilio Pucci)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 40 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Bring it Back (after Emilio Pucci)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 37 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Humans
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 61 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Humans (II)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 52 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Everything All The Time (after Sonia Delaunay)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 48 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Everything All The Time (II)
Glazed ceramic, gold lustre, 40 cm
LUCINDA MUDGE, Born to Wish for More
Ceramic, gold lustre, 56 cm
Lucinda Mudge is a contemporary South African artist working primarily in the medium of ceramics.
As a ceramicist, Mudge’s chosen medium is fragile by nature, and prone to fracture. Sudden changes in temperature in her kiln can cause her large-scale vases to crack, crumble, or collapse, rendering months of hard work futile. In Mudge’s love affair with ceramics, this crazing of clay is akin to heartbreak. It can start slowly – small cracks appearing and spreading, familiar patterns disintegrating, once bright hues fading into oblivion – or it can all fall apart without warning. ‘It’s a brutal choice of material,’ says the artist, and, like love, it can bring both great joy and great misery. But it is this chaos and unpredictability that is central to both our existence and Mudge’s work. Moreover, the choice of the vase as a canvas holds great significance. Commonly a functional household object, the vase has a presence which is genuinely welcoming and affirming; It is a familiar and domestic object.
Mudge’s extraordinary vases captivate the eye with their rich colours and intricate detail. Both a visual and a socio-political record, her work draws inspiration from a wide variety of references, including cartoons, pop songs, fabric designs and Art Deco vase patterns, resulting in whimsical collisions of the popular and refined, the mundane and elevated, the violent and the beautiful. This range of contemporary and historical sources merge to present a complex narrative familiar to many South Africans. With hand-mixed glazes and stains and produced painstakingly slowly, each piece is as unique as the narrative it tells. Themes, images, and text are reworked and reshuffled, embodying in their very fabric humanity’s ability to carry contradictory impulses simultaneously.
Lucinda Mudge has worked in major corporate and private collections nationally and internationally, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Guernsey, the Netherlands, Italy and Russia. Lucinda’s work was also exhibited at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, as part of the exhibition Making Africa (2015).
LUCINDA MUDGE, Love and Marriage
Ceramic, gold lustre, 61 cm
Lucinda Mudge is a contemporary South African artist working primarily in the medium of ceramics.
As a ceramicist, Mudge’s chosen medium is fragile by nature, and prone to fracture. Sudden changes in temperature in her kiln can cause her large-scale vases to crack, crumble, or collapse, rendering months of hard work futile. In Mudge’s love affair with ceramics, this crazing of clay is akin to heartbreak. It can start slowly – small cracks appearing and spreading, familiar patterns disintegrating, once bright hues fading into oblivion – or it can all fall apart without warning. ‘It’s a brutal choice of material,’ says the artist, and, like love, it can bring both great joy and great misery. But it is this chaos and unpredictability that is central to both our existence and Mudge’s work. Moreover, the choice of the vase as a canvas holds great significance. Commonly a functional household object, the vase has a presence which is genuinely welcoming and affirming; It is a familiar and domestic object.
Mudge’s extraordinary vases captivate the eye with their rich colours and intricate detail. Both a visual and a socio-political record, her work draws inspiration from a wide variety of references, including cartoons, pop songs, fabric designs and Art Deco vase patterns, resulting in whimsical collisions of the popular and refined, the mundane and elevated, the violent and the beautiful. This range of contemporary and historical sources merge to present a complex narrative familiar to many South Africans. With hand-mixed glazes and stains and produced painstakingly slowly, each piece is as unique as the narrative it tells. Themes, images, and text are reworked and reshuffled, embodying in their very fabric humanity’s ability to carry contradictory impulses simultaneously.
Lucinda Mudge has worked in major corporate and private collections nationally and internationally, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Guernsey, the Netherlands, Italy and Russia. Lucinda’s work was also exhibited at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, as part of the exhibition Making Africa (2015).
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.