Madeline Hall reinterprets religious imagery as "psychedelic" ceramic sculptures
Ceramicist Madeline Hall's graduation project from Central Saint Martins was this collection of brightly coloured, gravity-defying sculptures based on religious scenes.
Hall completed the project, called Stations, during her final year on the undergraduate ceramic design programme at London's Central Saint Martins art school.
Hall manipulated coils of clay into three-dimensional forms that reference scenes from the 14 Stations of the Cross, depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion, which gives the project its name.
The images are translated into abstract lines that become more distorted as the viewer moves around the piece.
The artist said the project was inspired by John M Allegro's controversial 1970 book, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, which suggests that the origins of Christianity are linked to cult practices such as ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms. "I have a fine art background so I'm also interested in painting," she told Dezeen. "These sculptures are loosely based on religious images, but in a really psychedelic, distorted way."
The sculptures are made from standard earthenware clay that was extruded into coils and draped over a supporting framework before being fired to harden the material.
Hall claimed that the biggest challenge she encountered was finding a way to manipulate the material into the desired forms and then move them to a kiln for firing.
She used wood offcuts found in the university's workshop to fashion exte...
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