Lorna Yabsley
‘Hot’ Glitch Jasper
Slip cast porcelain with figurative sprigs, 23 cm H
Lorna Yabsley is a multi-disciplinary creative; she is an established professional photographer and author. Now in her mid-fifties, she is pursuing her life-long love of making, collaborating, and developing her skills as a ceramic artist.
To date she has, made design orientated work that clearly sits in the digital domain. She challenges herself to create highly refined and complex pieces, pushing the technical limits of established craft practice and combines this with the traditional time-honoured techniques of the studio designer maker.
Interested in re-interpreting and subverting familiar, long established iconic themes, she creates work that is grounded in rigorous research. She is often drawn to the figurative and is heavily influenced in her strength of experience as a photographer of people and is a practiced and acute observer.
She continues to explore and expand her practice, with the aim to evolve highly refined works for the high-end art market.
Whilst studying for her BA part time at Plymouth College of Art, she continued to run her photographic practice and published her latest book The Photography Ideas Book for The Tate in 2019. In her second year, she won an award with The British Arts Medal Society, for her work highlighting the issue of breast cancer titled ‘Be Breast Aware’ Plymouth College of Art has tipped her as ‘One to Watch’, and was invited to take part in The Crafts Councils ‘Future Edit’ in 2020.
‘Hot’ Glitch Jasper
This subversive work is a blend of both digital and traditional craft practice that challenges the technical limitations of the ceramic process. Inspired by Wedgwood’s Jasperware, Lorna has re-animated this ubiquitous classic with digital glitch and a contemporary narrative, in contrast to the sentimental ornament that some Jasperware has become associated with.
Based on Wedgwood’s Portland Vase, the neo-classical bas-relief figures are replaced with contemporary urban figures, these are further fragmented and broken to resonate with the glitch. By employing exacting digital techniques, Lorna aims to echo the refinement achieved by Wedgwood’s master craftsmen and pay homage to Josiah Wedgwood’s Jasperware masterpiece.