Bonnie Grace is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, ceramics, and printmaking. Her practice revolves around antiques and ceramics; investigating, dissecting, and translating these objects. Growing up surrounded by her mother’s antique business, Bonnie is inspired by the intricate patterns, diverse shapes, and the histories embedded in each object.
Her ceramics offer a personal interpretation of traditional ceramics and commemorative ware, drawing particular inspiration from Welsh ceramics and the dressers on which they were displayed.
Bonnie begins with continuous line drawing, using it as a way to detach from the object and explore it more freely. Struggling to think in three dimensions, she treats clay as though it were paper. From her line drawings, she creates templates and uses slabs of clay to form both 2D and 3D shapes, folding and pinching the surfaces to shape unique objects.
She embellishes her work with layers of coloured underglaze, ceramic pencil, decals, and lustres, drawing from historic patterns to give each piece its own distinct personality. Bonnie’s ceramics also serve as a means of expressing her thoughts and feelings, sometimes through a coded language inspired by binary code and the repetitive grids found in textiles.
Website: https://bonniegraceart.wordpress.com
Instagram: @bonnie.grace.art
