Material Earth

Liselott Olofsson & Larry Fogg

Liselott Olofsson is a ceramic artist and Larry Fogg is a painter and sculptor. They are based in Kilkenny, Ireland and this is their second installation for which they have collaborated.

The work they make together generally is about accumulation, of material, of images, of the effort of making it. Liselott Olofsson’s practice sees the place of materials as a central role. Usually her work is wheel thrown whereas this exhibition sees her using a variety of techniques and methods. Larry Fogg’s method of production is often determined by the material chosen, using the material not only for its plastic qualities but also for significance, its social or intrinsic values.

With Material Earth, they are trying to create an affinity of material and method. Fogg has chosen to use cheap plastic disposable ballpoint pens to painstakingly ink large tracings of the pens themselves and other plastic disposable objects. Olofsson has used unglazed and sometimes unfired clay in circular patterns or patterns of the circular fractured, disrupted and damaged. Together they are working towards a symbiosis of meaning and material, towards the meaning of materiality, of the effects of our ever spreading, expanding Western consumerist lifestyle on the material, the physical Earth.