Porcelain figurines present romantic notions of femininity as they politely pose on the mantelpiece, or, find themselves basking in the twinkling light of your grandmothers display cabinet. Like so many expressions of the ideal female, these nostalgic figures illustrate posed perfection and all the things little girls should aspire to be. Jessica Harrison, a sculptor living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland, disrupts these polished found objects and subverts their presented ideals through her sculptural modifications. Jessica Harrison completed a practice based PHD in sculpture in 2013 at Edinburgh University. Her research focused on shape and spaces; interior spaces, exterior spaces and the unseen spaces that exist around the internal and the external. Informed by her research, her sculptural works occupy these in-between spaces; the uninhabited spaces that evolve somewhere between here and there, between the … Continue reading Delicate Hearts & Bleeding Porcelain: Sculptures by Jessica Harrison