Nichola Shanley
The Agnes Dei Collection
19 July - 17 August 2024
Nichola Shanley’s new ceramic artworks appear as the remains of something consumed by fire and reborn as something not of the present but as relics. As a phoenix rising from the ashes, The Agnes Dei Collection materializes as an assembly of blackened figures blessed with a golden lustre. Once the ‘Body of Christ ‘in liturgical texts or uttered at the fraction rite in the Catholic mass, it is now the eucharistic species of bread, broken and added to the golden chalice or vessel. Shanley has presented her figures on long metal trestles as offerings on an altar, a thin ribbon of waxed metal river running towards two shroud-like silk paintings, flanked by ancestral heads mounted on the wall; this marriage of myth and Western religion inducing the phenomenon of transformation.
Porcelain & gold lustre
300 mm h x 200 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
260 mm h x 200 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
150 mm h x 150 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
130 mm h x 90 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
300 mmh x 200 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
160 mm h 19 mm d x 100mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
150 mm h x 100 mm d x 150 w
Porcelain
180 mm h x 120 mm d x 150 mm w
Porcelain
180 mm h x 130 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
280 mm h x 110 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
400 mm h x 150 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
200 mm h x 110 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
250 mm h 160 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
130 mm h x 90 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
450 mm h x 300 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
110 mm h x 90 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
220 mm h x 170 mm w
Porcelain
150 mm h 250 mm d x 90 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
280 mm h x 150 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
200 mm h 170 mm d x100 mm w
Porcelain, hand-sewn lamp shade with hand painted silk fabric
200 mm h x 170 mm w
Porcelain
220 mm h 250 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
280 mm h x 180 mm w
Porcelain
220 mm h x 160 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
300 mm h x 170 mm w
Porcelain, gold lustre, hand-sewn lamp shade with hand painted
silk fabric
540 mm h x 180 mm w
Porcelain & gold lustre
570 mm h x 180 mm w
Porcelain, gold lustre, hand-sewn lamp shade with hand painted silk fabric
400 mm h x 200 mm w
Silk & fabric paint
1125 mm w x 2840 mm h
Silk & fabric paint
1120 mm w x 2600 mm h