Top left: Translucent porcelain-lit bamboo wall installation; Top right: Translucent porcelain wall sculpture; Above: Porcelain light and water sculpture

Under the spotlight

Light sculpture

Margaret O'Rorke

Margaret O'Rorke is an unassuming potter who makes striking light sculptures. Since the early '80s, she's been producing translucent porcelain pieces from her UK studio in Oxfordshire. In the mid-1950s, she trained as a painter at the Chelsea School of Art, before taking up pottery at the Camberwell School of Art. She now exhibits around the world, while taking on commissions for hotels, banks and private clients.



What makes O'Rorke's work so intriguing is its organic, ethereal quality, which seems to draw much from nature — for instance, her use of wing-like pleats (above). Later this year, you can see her work at Minnesota's Northern Clay Center. Failing that, visit her website where you can buy pieces ranging from £350 to £15,000 

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Info

Exhibition
From November - December, 2009
Northern Clay Center,
Minnesota, USA



Website
Margaret O'Rorke

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