 Elizabeth Fritsch CBEArchitectural and essentially spiritual forms are explored in Elizabeth Fritsch's poetic, ceramic vessel structures.StatementThe metaphysical function of certain kinds of buildings is to convey transcendence, spiritual exaltation, serenity, et cetera. This is most potent when there is an inter-relationship with music or the airy element, appearance and disappearance or extreme drama, as in monasteries, cathedrals, temples, tombs, and theatres. Even more than in such intentionally metaphysical buildings, certain mundane physically functional architecture carries a strong other-worldly poetic charge - all the stronger perhaps for being an unintentional by-product of the physical function, as in, for example, lighthouses, windmills, telescopes, bridges, boats, dams. It is the dangerous elemental relationships which make precision engineered buildings such as these breathtaking. A third strand of influence comes from the dramatic architecture created by the elements in nature: such as, to mention just a few examples from geology - mountaintops (Ziggurat towers, pyramids), cliffs, chasms, and waves. ImagesCollectionsPartial listingBelle-Rive Museum, Zurich British Council Collection, Great Britain Crafts Council Collection, London Decorative Arts Museum, Koberg Kunst Industrie Museum, Copenhagen Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Royal Museum, Scotland Victoria and Albert Museum, London Zhigaraki Museum, Japan |