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Julie Butler creates large clay sculptures inspired by events in her own life. Time, space, and identity are some of the issues that inspire her work and each piece encapsulates an emotional story. Over the past ten years, Butler has honed her skills through concentrated experimentation, continuing her quest to extend the boundaries of clay as a sculptural medium. A recent graduate of the Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Butler is currently working with casting different media with clay and enjoys the stylistic shift this enables: “Using scale in a non ceramic way has given me the opportunity to add rhythmic complexity and expression in much the same way as I would paint on a canvas.” DIFFERENCE and BELONGING expresses Butler’s observations of multicultural diversity. Each large-scale stoneware unit is differentiated through colour, shape and patterning, yet cohesion and connections are achieved through relationships in scale and positioning. The installation references diversity and the dichotomy of colour that Butler recognises in human character and emotion: “My desire to give form to these comes from my exploration of what it is to be human.”

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  Drawing Grace 

  Julie Butler

  Stoneware clay & metal oxide glaze, 2019, 545mm x 690mm x 550mm

  NZ$5,400 SOLD

  Contact: Gallery 33

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