Amanda Crump creates ceramic animals which appear to have stepped out of a Lewis Carol novel. Dressed in their finery her highly detailed pieces are bedecked in all manor of attire. Walruses, poodles, mermaids, rabbits, a whole menagerie of fantastical beasts are on display.
“We often anthropomorphise the creatures with which we share our world. There are many lessons to be learned from an animal’s innate sense of dignity and pride that we, as humans, can often lose at an early age.” Amanda Crump
Amanda’s creatures have an inscrutability about them, sometimes unsettling and dark, sometimes genial and warm. The artist questions the way we treat the creatures we share our world with – using them as symbols of legends and folk tales, attributing blame for things we don’t understand about our world or, even demeaning and anthropomorphising them in the name of love.