Isobel Egan, a ceramic artist based in county Kildare, Ireland, explores the relationships between internal, external and physical spaces around us through her delicate porcelain sculptures. Egan is drawn to the extraordinary potential of porcelain to be fine, intricate and delicate. Utilizing wafer thin sheets of porcelain, with their translucent paper - like quality, Egan constructs miniature worlds that challenge and question the perceived permanence of manmade structures. The concentric quadrilateral shapes that form her work recall abstracted rooms or cities. Each sculpture suggests and makes you wonder the actual transience of these constructs: their tininess and delicacy poignantly communicating the fragility of physical and internal spaces alike.
Introducing torn, uneven edges, she occasionally evokes disruption to the consistency of the repeated regular forms. Egan’s sculptures prompt various narrative, sharp contrasts between regular consistency and free irregularities to reflect on the transient nature of physical and emotional spaces, simultaneously being steady and predictable, while also being inconsistent and random.
Egan’s intimate sculptures invite her viewers to perceive our own relationship with space and how it shapes us, physically and emotionally.