Bears

Two recent plates. I've been told they're unsettling, which is fine with me. "What are the bears doing?" was the question. I think of the bears as some kind of protective spirits. Or make up your own story. They are available at The Shop, on Royal Street in New Orleans.

New Plates, June 2012.

These are for sale. Please contact me if you are interested.

Owls

3 brand new owl plates. Medium sized china with gilded edges. They are available at The Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh and cost £100 each.

a

Here are details for 'a', the exhibition for which I recently made hare, squirrel and magpie plates. Worth a visit, if you're in town:

Saturday 22nd January Private View 11.00-13.00 Symposium 13.00-16.

23rd January - 27th February 12.00-15.00

The Demarco European Art Foundation, Craigcrook Castle, Craigcrook Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3PE

Ailsa Lochhead/Alice Bo-Wen Chang/Augustus Veinoglou/Becky Campbell/David Cass/Dickie Webb/Eric Schumacher/Faith Limbrick/Grazyna Dobrzelecka/Kathryn Wiggins/Kim W Wilson/Konomi Kaneya/Kirsty Sumerling/Laura Sutherland/Lorna Louise Reid/Magda Boreysza/Margaret McCormick/Nika Kupyrova/Peter Amoore/Rachael Thomas/Rachel Charter/Sacha Imrie/Sarah MacIntyre/Sara Sinclair/Sarah MacIntyre/Sigrun Gudmundsdottir/Thorunn Bara/Tobias Houlton

An extended version of the group exhibition recently presented at The WOT Gallery, with new works made in response to The Demarco European Art Foundation

Explaining Art to Animals

Here are 3 fresh new pieces I've made for an exhibition at the Richard Demarco Archive. It's a foray into fine art, which is a new thing for me.

Richard Demarco is a Scottish artist famous for his collaborations with, and championing of other artists, especially European artists, and perhaps most notably Joseph Beuys. He has an impressive archive of modern and contemporary art at Craigcrook Castle in Edinburgh.

The exhibition is called 'a' and will consist of work by 26 artists, all of us current or former Edinburgh College of Art students. (I'll post more info when I have it) The idea is that our pieces will somehow engage with the art collection.

I latched onto the image of a hare in the Beuys section. Beuys famously attempted to explain art to a dead hare (How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965); the hare being a sacred animal which runs free, unencumbered by borders.

Here's Beuys, his face smeared with gold and honey, guiding the hare around an art gallery:

So the first piece I did was the hare. For its companions, I chose two animals which I had seen in the garden surrounding the castle, a magpie and a squirrel.

Both are animals that compulsively gather things, and I thought that if any animal would appreciate the archive it would be them. So they've all been invited inside and their gazes will fall across abstract paintings and photographs of performance art. And we'll never know what they think.

Dead Pets' Society

I made two plates for Christmas gifts this year, both portraits of deceased pets: our little rabbit for my mother and our neighbour's cat for our neighbour. Here are some pictures:

Animal Crockery

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Some fun new work that I've made. This is all vintage english and scottish china, decorated by hand with my animal designs. If you want to buy anything, get in touch: hello@magdaboreysza.com. Generally, small plates cost £25-£30 and large plates £50. The plates can be put on the wall with hooks, or used for keeping fruit or biscuits on, but not for eating off of. They are dishwasher safe.  Click on the images to see larger versions.
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