Ceramic Review is the magazine for contemporary and historical ceramics, ceramic art and pottery.
September/October 2023
Lotte Inch Gallery - York
“The Space In Between” brings to the gallery a sophisticated exhibition of ceramic vessels by the much-revered and sought-after Katharina Klug. This is a show which plays with juxtaposing shapes, form and line and places these individual parts within the context of a larger installation work. It's a show too, which sees the boundaries between craftsmanship and artistic expression become hazy.
Known for her manipulation of graphic lines painstakingly hand-drawn onto the surfaces of her fine porcelain vessels, this body of work explores the spaces that lie between lines and objects, and sees Katharina move her practice towards something almost more sculptural, as she omits certain elements, thus creating new. The identifiably Katharina colour-pallet and beautifully realised vessels remain simultaneously of themselves, and of something bigger, more powerful