Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain Kew
This exhibition book reveals insight into the process and challenges of creating monumental porcelain, showcasing Felicity Aylieff's extraordinary new pieces inspired by Kew’s rich archives of botanical illustrations, from the ‘new Ming’ vases to a collection of stylised Fencai enamelled vessels.
Author: Felicity Aylieff, 120 pages, 100 colour photographs, 280 x 240 mm. Paperback, ISBN 9781842468289, Kew Publishing.
Acclaimed ceramic artist Felicity Aylieff is renowned for creating dynamic, hand-thrown and painted porcelain vessels on a colossal scale and has consistently travelled to China to realise her unique, creative ambitions. Based in Jingdezhen, the world-famous capital of porcelain production, she has developed new methods of creation through enduring partnerships with teams of skilled technicians and artisans – allowing her to push the limits of this most challenging of materials.
2024 sees the exhibition Expressions in Blue, Monumental Porcelain by Felicity Aylieff come to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This landmark exhibition marks a high point in Aylieff’s career, showcasing the creative and technical journey of an artist working between cultures, realising a unique ambition to create astonishing vessels on a monumental scale.
This book reveals insight into the process and challenges of creating such ground-breaking work, showcasing extraordinary new pieces inspired by Kew’s rich archives of botanical illustrations, from the ‘new Ming’ vases to a collection of stylised Fencai enamelled vessels. The text includes a personal testimonial from Aylieff and an essay by art historian John-Paul Stonard in celebration of this impressive body of work. With a foreword by Adrian Sassoon.
Over 100 photographs showcase these monumental hand-thrown works in vivid colour, including incredible 5-metre-tall vases, all hand-painted with stunning cobalt oxides.
The exhibition Expressions in Blue, Monumental Porcelain is at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, October 2024 – 29 March 2025.
Felicity Aylieff has an established reputation as a maker of large-scale, sculptural ceramics. Based in Jingdezhen, China, she has a teaching career that spans over 40 years and is currently Professor of ceramics and glass and research at the Royal College of Art, London. Her work is held in numerous international private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
Dr John-Paul Stonard is an art historian, author, artist, curator and lecturer. He trained as a painter before studying art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. His book Creation: Art Since the Beginning was selected as a Sunday Times Art Book of the Year and has been translated into multiple languages since publication in 2021. In the same year his history of the art collection at Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now was published by Penguin Books. Previous books include (as editor and contributor) The Books that Shaped Art History, and the catalogues to the exhibitions Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation (Tate, 2014), and Germany Divided: Baselitz and his Generation (British Museum 2014). His first book Fault Lines: Art in Germany 1945-55 was published by Ridinghouse Press in 2007. He lives and works as an artist and writer in Suffolk.
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