Antoinette Du Plessis

Random Variables Ceramic Exhibition

APRIL EXHIBITION ANTOINETTE DU PLESSIS RANDOM VARIABLES "I discovered in nature the non-utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both are a form of magic..." Vladimir Nobokov in Speak, Memory. There are, I think, divergent aspects to my work: nature drawings, cartoonish portraiture, haphazard doodling, painterly colour, all improbably deposited onto formal clay shapes. I work intuitively and try to be welcoming of all outcomes, 'good' or not, beautiful or not, intended or not. But as one works on, season after season, the accidental nature of chance grows more and more predictable. Refinement and repetition become ever more difficult to avoid. So one has to focus on keeping randomness as one's lodestar, plan for it, allow for it consciously. This is, for me, the deep contradiction and therefore the eternal fascination central to making a living as an artist.

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