OLIVIA WALKER: PORCELAIN DREAMS

 Review by Jas Bhachu 

​It didn't take much to get drawn into Olivia Walker's creations at the London Design Festival.  Olivia's beautiful porcelain pieces spoke for themselves offering a peaceful corner in the London Design Fair where the public completely slowed down and investigated the body of work. There was a tremendous amount of delicacy and fragility to her work that had a magnetic effect and drew me in to find out more. 

​'I work in porcelain to create pieces that explore ideas of growth and decay through the build-up of complex surfaces. All of my pieces start by being thrown on the wheel before being built upon with thousands of individually-applied fragments of porcelain. I start from a set point on a bowl and let these organic accretions spread out – eating through or growing over the form beneath. They make reference to organisms – fungus, coral and bacteria – but are unidentifiable. This growth leads to the original bowl’s decay and collapse. It’s through this process of degradation that the strength and beauty of the piece emerges.'

You can find her on Instagram to keep in touch ​here.