AM386Y40 Florentine Maiden
This earthenware portrait dish is handbuilt and decorated in the maiolica style. Her work is inspired by paintings, observations in museums, churches, galleries, and directly from life. Subjects are animated through soft forms and colour palettes.
£800.00 £721.37 outside the UK PRODUCT CODE:AM386Y40
Height:
7.5 cm
Width:
34 cm
Depth:
36 cm
Materials:
Earthenware
Technique:
Hand Built
About this maker
Agalis Manessi is a ceramic artist working from studios in London and Corfu, where she was born. After studying ceramics at the Central School of Art & Design, she was inspired by the teachings of Gordon Baldwin, Eileen Nisbett and Dan Arbeid who encouraged her enthusiasm for the plastic qualities of terracotta clay. After graduation she set up a studio in Hackney where she was a founding member of Broadway Ceramics and taught in further education. In 2018 she relocated her studio to Kennington in south London.