Bouke de Vries
Netherlander Bouke de Vries trained first in design at Eindhoven and Central St Martins and worked with John Galiano, Stephen Jones and Zandra Rhodes before retraining in ceramics conservation and restoration, a skill that is integral to his recently developed artistic practice. Using reclaimed broken china, glass and pottery, often pieces that have lost a high value in their breaking, de Vries reconstructs them in fragmented or altered forms. He describes their breaking as their trauma - the most dramatic episode in the life of a ceramic object - and he explores and emphasises this point, looking to both the life and value of the broken ceramic, his own experience from Dutch 17th and 18th century still-life painting he saw growing up and to contemporary life.
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Sculpture
27cm x 43cm x 17cm
19th century samson porcelain and mixed media
Built from a broken 18th century French Statuette of the Muse of Music, made with the highly collectable Meissen porcelin, de Vries here builds up resin, which would ordinarily be used to reconstruct missing parts to reconfigure the figure as a pop star, accurately rendering her Glastonbury outfit.
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