{"title":"Rosie McLachlan","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eMy ceramic works are wood fired over 4 days and nights in an anagama kiln, an ancient type of pottery kiln brought to Japan from China via Korea in the 5th century. The long firing process is a devotional act, and the resulting sculptural works, transformed by heat, flame and ash accretions, have an elemental, totem-like quality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAuthor and curator Stephen Ellcock writes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eRosie’s work references ancient traditions of funerary art, drawing upon her in-depth research into comparative mythology and pan-global cosmologies. At first glance these ceramics may appear to be familiar-looking souvenirs of a mythic, imperfect past, objects created with some inexplicable ritual purpose in mind, but the closer one looks the more alien and disconcerting the works appear, resembling nothing less than relics of a civilisation not yet born: fieldwork for future archaeology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0947\/8186\/6362\/collections\/IMG_6142.jpg?v=1786031571","url":"https:\/\/annwfngallery.com\/collections\/rosie-mclachlan.oembed","provider":"Annwfn Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}