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[February 2005]
Loretta Braganza: Ceramics at YSP
An exhibition taking place from 19 March 2005 to 5 June 2005, by one of the UK's most innovative and highly original ceramicists, forms part of the new Spring programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (West Bretton, Wakefield, England). Loretta Braganza's striking ceramics use simple geometric form and colour to envelop, define and project space. The artist's playful manipulation of space and ceramic reveals how the shape and arrangement of objects can affect our perception of them.
Loretta Braganza explores spatial relationships through a series of installations of ceramic forms. Shapes are carefully arranged and juxtaposed to direct the flow of space in particular ways. Object groups can be moved to redefine and change the viewer's perception of pieces as well as the work as a whole. Some ceramics have interchangeable parts, with one shape fitting into another, enabling composite pieces to be added to, or removed from vessels. This allows the whole to be built up or pared down into separate elements, again redefining an engagement with the work on different levels.
Loretta Braganza is of Indo-Portuguese descent. She was brought up in India and trained in the classical Indian dance form of Bharat Natyam. She made her first pot at the age of 40 and her sensitivity to Indian decorative art form and pattern, to dance, textiles and colour, helped inform this transition. She became resident in England in 1965. She is a Craft Potters Association Fellow and is on the Crafts Council index of selected makers.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park: www.ysp.co.uk
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