Cup

Artist Jenny Mendes feels out her subconscious through acts with clay, a two part process that first explores shape and proportional representation, then a figurative portrayal that provokes a capacity for character creation and amalgams of inner personality and developed relationship. Works are traditionally ceramic-based vessels with a totem-like charisma, and ‘Cup 1’ reduces this down dynamically, its form and construction more classically vase-like — ears as handles, two faces positioned as opposites — the figures carefully picked out and characterised in soft, balmy layers of Terra Sigillata applied over a black underglaze.