DAPHNE CORREGAN
Born in Pittsburg, Daphne Corregan has studied at the Beaux Arts in Toulon, Marseilles and in Aix-en-Provence. She lives and work in south France. Divides her time between her studio and the teaching of sculpture and ceramics at the Ecole d’Arts Plastique of Monaco.
“Daphne Corregan takes pleasure in distracting objects away from their original function by distorting and stretching them to impossible dimensions in order to magnify them and make them playful. Ceramist and sculptor, her forms originate on paper. It is these drawings which will determine the technique she will need to create them.
Corregan works more on the representation of the object than on the object itself. She wants to demonstrate that a pot for example, by removing it from its daily context may be just as important as a sculpture or painting. She will flatten it, exaggerate its size or even highlight only one of its details. She uses diverse materials such as clay, metal, glass or bronze. She works in series and in what we might classify into three families: destructured pots; geometric volumes; and sculpture/objects, often anthropomorphic”.
For a better understand of her work please visit the following webpage: http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/corregan.htm