Vivienne Foley

Hand thrown porcelain 

Fired and Glazed

Black and White

Vivienne Foley is a well know ceramic artists who uses her own hands to carve and mould her pieces in vases. She also has private collections around the world in different countries, and presents her work globally. Vivienne produces lots of her work out of porcelain, which is better for moulding and easy to form into. She gets most of her inspiration from Chinese processes and techniques. 

Vivienne places her pieces not by size, but how she groups her vases together and makes them into a still life composition. She focuses on positive and negative colours, which are black and white, and she has used this throughout her ceramic vases. Vivienne likes to produce weird and unusual shapes, which makes her pieces look fantastic and beautiful, and she carries on with this idea in many of her other ones. She always makes the bottom the same as all the rest, but when nearing the top of her vases, she creates a different shape each time. 

Vivienne vases take a life of their own when the get fired and this is what makes them so special to her. 

By Conor Murray

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