Can collage by Gillian Lowndes
(1936-2010)
fibreglass tissue, sardine tin, forks and other materials
Gillian Lowndes was a "radical and original ceramic artist" way ahead of her time. In the late 1970s she was using a bricolage technique, fusing together, often in multiple firings, a huge range of materials: "including house bricks, fibreglass tissuem, Egyptian paste, nichrome wire, domestic utensils, dried loofahs and latex, among others". This approach was inspired by time spent with her partner in Nigeria. On their return "The rich textural surfaces of the materials themselves ... quietly filled her imagination".
She described herself as "a materials-driven artist" and her work as "material-based objects, not pre-planned objects".
This information is, sadly, taken from her obituary (19.11.10) in the Guardian, written by Amanda Fielding.
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