Gráinne McHugh is a Cape Town based artist who mainly works with clay. “She creates ambiguous figures: beautiful, cute, fun, but also discomposed, ironic and muted. A range of every-woman doll heads has been her chief preoccupation.
Nomadic and self-taught she works like a magpie – finding the textures of an odd button, a soiled doily and throwaway scrap inspirational.”
“My work is really a series of mistakes, riffs and quirks.”
See more of her beautiful work here:
http://www.grainnemchugh.com/
Follow her on Twitter: @GrainneMcHugh
Oh my giddiness! These are exceptional!
Beautiful stuff Grainne.
I am intrigued – the references to decomposition and decay – what is your thinking behind this?
You may be interested in some of my work which deals with environmental issues, particularly toxicology, and has many evocative textures of this issue.
http://wordpress.beautifuldystopias.com
Wow!