Mother and Child
(Two-part) Sculpture
Stoneware, engobe, and glaze
75 x 18.5 x 19 cm
Unique work, 2026
Mother and Child engages with the long history of mother-and-child imagery, from devotional Madonnas to modern reinterpretations. Through a coiled form evoking a female figure holding an infant, the work examines attachment, separation, dependence, and autonomy, while reflecting on the fragile structures through which belonging is formed and negotiated.
References
i. Fragment of a terracotta relief of a woman and child, Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, mid-4th century BCE.
ii. Madonna and Child, Donatello.
iii. Virgin and Child, Master of the Mansi Magdalen, Netherlandish.
v. Virgin and Child, Imitator of Mino da Fiesole (Mino di Giovanni), Italian, 19th century.
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iv. Virgin and Child, French, 14th century.
vi. Madonna and Child, after a model by Donatello, Italian, 15th century or later, after ca. 1450 model
vii. Madonna and Child, possibly Italian, Florence, late 15th–early 16th century.
viii. Madonna and Child, Donatello.