Image credit: Farraday Newsome, Memento Vitae, 2022, Glazed terra cotta, 18 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 10 inches.
This exhibition showcases a new collection of ceramic works created between 2020 and 2024 which reflects her deep interest in the intelligent, lush beauty of nature and its brilliantly creative strategies for propagation. Frequently exploring personal metaphoric associations and emotional reactions to being female in a biological world, it is important to the artist that this work not be overly anthropocentric; wanting to take fertility and nurturing beyond the experience of human reproduction to that of nature itself as an infinitely beautiful, self-perpetuating living system.
