Shary Boyle & others @ Richard Saltoun Gallery

Part II: Ceramics – The Central Core explores the fantastical, mythological and performative elements of the medium. The malleability of clay allows it to perform under and for an artist’s hands, a physical, mysterious manifestation of an artist’s psyche and ideas. The second half of our two-part online exhibition for Women 2.0, showcases work by female artists not represented by the gallery, featuring Shary Boyle, Judy Chicago, Karen Densham, Lindsey Mendick, and Holly Stevenson

Shary Boyle’s alchemy is to transform the figure, whether female, male or genderless, into an object of transfiguration. Her early training, in local community hobby classes run and attended by ‘grandmothers’, germinated her interest in the body. Inspired by Victorian figurine moulds, Boyle creates experimental, seductive forms which defy categorization.