Kirsten Coelho

by Wendy Walker

168 pages

ISBN: 978 1 74305 746 9

First published 2020 by Wakefield Press.

Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain creating functional forms and vessels of a distilled and otherworldly perfection, which represent her preferred fusion of the formal with the abstract. 

In Kirsten Coelho, the first major publication on a practice spanning thirty years, images of Coelho's impeccable vessels are interleaved with fragments of poetry and reproductions of paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Russel Drysdale and Vilhelm Hammershoi. In a series of essays, author Wendy Walker traces the evolution of Coelho's textured practice in which an ever-expanding framework of art historical, literary and cinematic references has driven a succession of formal shifts - a shaping of changes.