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

Potter profile

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). To see more of her sculpture, visit O'Rorke's website where you can buy pieces ranging from £350 to £15,000. She's also written a handbook, Clay, Light & Water, for budding ceramicists who want to emulate her work 

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Book

Clay, Light & Water
(A&C Black)



Website
Margaret O'Rorke