“My work has evolved from the tradition of nature printing – the initial impressions in clay are a recording of time. My botanical castings reflect my desire to capture the ephemeral – they capture the progress of the seasons, marking the plants at the moment when they are most alive. Like a fossil of long-forgotten plants, each porcelain plaque is a ghostly vestige of time, an act of remembering: a summer day in the garden with my mother, discussions about locations of new plants, the two of us dead-heading the perennials. I wish to distil the essence of the flowers, each one the memory of nature itself.”
Part of the Manchester School of Art MA Show, This Is It: an exhibition of work by art, design, media and landscape architecture postgraduate students that celebrate the outcomes of our studies and work as practitioners, Sept-Oct 2017.
Jade Alana Art 