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Kerry Jameson, Conflict.
It is art that inspires Kerry Jameson, complex narrative painting in particular; the Baroque, great scenes of human drama, battles and shipwrecks and crucifixions. Through her serious visual observation with her 'hungry artist's eyes', and her emotional connection with these depictions and stories, traversed through drawing, she builds with red clay in an apparently free-wheeling way, making tall totemic structures where figures in a human dilemma are poised on top of an elaborate scaffold of clay struts. It is as if she sees and understands the paintings more vividly by making her sculptures. In Kerry's work there is always a narrative content, though it may have altered the story from her historical source painting. She works in groups, sets scenes. One of her devices is to have large and small works occupying the same space, like the great trees in a forest lapped by undergrowth and grass, or the mice in a cartoon film carrying a subtext to the main action. Her pieces are unlikely sculptural forms for ceramics, with their see-through underpinnings like the rusting metal legs of a seaside pier. Modern sculpture in clay has tended to emphasise the mass of an earth-bound idiom...
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