Artwork of the Week examines this gorgeous ceramic tile made by the very talented ceramicist Sian Mather. Sian works in the Project Ability Reconnect studio, and has been creating amazing ceramics, often themed around impressionist and post-impressionist artists and their work. This example here is a ceramic tile based on the painting by Edvard Munch, Evening on Karl Street, 1892.
The painting itself is described on the Edvard Munch website as… intimating threat and unease, as the vacant, pitiless gazes of the bourgeois strollers bear down on the viewer. The mood of nocturnal catalepsy….
Sian has taken this mood and enhanced it even further by accentuating the gazes of the bourgeois strollers, giving them more of an appearance of the face in Munch’s ‘The Scream’; ghostly and quite terrifying!
‘Evening on Karl Johan Street, 1892, Edvard Munch’ can be viewed in our current exhibition, The Ceramics Exhibition. It can also be viewed in our online shop where it is available for purchase.
