Bloedjesinstallatie by Judith Bloedjes

Judith Bloedjes, visual artist, wants to give ceramics the appraisal it deserves. She designs and makes highly wearable porcelain jewellery. Her use of manifold textures and materials like porcelain and silver give these objects an industrial appearance. However, upon closer inspection, they reveal a soft and sober character. A journey into shape and form led to a broad diversity of unique specimens. Bloedjes has also designed a whole range of unusual design objects made of her favorite material porcelain, that all seem to have one thing in common: they are so exceptional, it's quite hard to tell what purpose they serve until they are actually in use and thus come to life.
For the exposition ‘Wearables for the home’ she created an installation of a series of porcelain objects that hang loosely, almost heedless on the wall. It is quite difficult to make these large porcelain handthrown forms, you need a lot of practice and patience and an almost Zen-like character. The installation lets us taste the serenity of the maker and feel the stillness of the work…
Bloedjes is also working on live performances of fresh porcelain jewellery made live on models in ‘a catwalk’ surrounding...