Wobble Bowl

Fascinating combination of ceramic and kinetic arts from Brooks Oliver, whose practice explores illusionary tactics for disarming and uprooting the viewers perception. The “Wobble Vase” series incorporates ideas gleaned from several years Brooks spent studying industrial engineering, utilising a precision of angle and production that bring to mind the cool, simplified shades of modernism in their soft use of angle and surface via celadon ceramic. The destabilised resting position — carefully balanced to provide a fixed axis of movement — offers playful interactivity and the insertion of some restless or oblique sensitivity to the object; the proportions and functional state vacillating between a practical vessel and industrial widget or toy.