Collection: Fragile Fantasies

DAWN CLAYDEN
Fragile Fantasies - An odyssey of adornment
03 - 10 April, 2025

At The Poi Room, 17 Osborne Street, Newmarket  

After ten years as a full-time ceramicist, Dawn returned to her sculptor roots with a study on the bare form of objects stripped of colour, transformed with handmade flowers and bows then detailed with real gold. Dawn has pushed her creative boundaries with Fragile Fantasies, producing colossal porcelain vases smothered in her signature blooms, masses of heavily adorned plates with pops of pink and a cornucopia of animal-based works dancing along the lines of kitsch and high art. Gold highlights appear everywhere. "A juxtaposition of cutesy kitchy-ness with a bit of curiosity and fun," these pieces are made to be shown, used and gifted - pretty bows in place for all time.