Sassy Park
About the work
Painted Wall Fragment 2024
porcelain, terracotta, oxides, underglazes, gold lustre
$1100
Etruscan Head Wall Fragment, 2024
terracotta with oxides and underglazes, gold lustre
$1100
A patch of painted wall, a woman’s profile - fragments of culture where we must imagine the missing pieces. Etruscan Head and Wall Fragment are inspired by the 1970’s wall mural of the iconic Australian composer, Peggy Glanville-Hick’s historic terrace house in Paddington, Sydney; an invocation of ancient Greece on a backyard wall of charioteers, horses and greek designs possibly inspired from a vase from an Etruscan tomb. (1)
Glanville- Hicks was elderly, poor and sick when she trusted the house for future musicians. The house was in disrepair with parts held together by bits of moistened white bread as putty. (2)
About Sassy Park
Sassy Park is interested in the history of ceramics, objects and ideas. Her work plays with the accepted uses of domestic ceramics and historical art genres which observe a contemporary take on what ceramics are and what they can say. The medium of clay with its embedded transformative nature of strength and fragility becomes a metaphor for themes and debates of the everyday. Ideas of vulnerability and the unspoken are expressed through scale, intimacy and humour.
- Dr Hardwick, Nicholas. FSA. The Greek Style Mural in the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers’ House, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cc79b209d41492bd7a3135c/t/ 5d64abcb1010700001adffbf/1566878676398/PGHMuralHardwickRevised.pdf accessed 15.1.2024
- Simpson, Shane. The Earliest Days of The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers’ House 10th December 2019 h7ps://sta:c1.squarespace.com/sta:c/5cc79b209d41492bd7a3135c/t/60b8530a4848d052f2b7a4bf/1622692619193/Early+history+of+the+PGH+House.pdf accessed 15.1.2024
Top image: Sassy Park, Painted Wall Fragment, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist.