Simon Kidd

Nature is not always kind and we are often nasty to her in turn. But there is a terrible beauty in the dried husk of a tree stricken down by lighting or a prairie struggling to reassert itself after the depredations of the plow. Inspired by quarried mountains and the desolate coastlines of his native Ireland, Simon Kidd distills from harsh reality pleasing objects that possess a hint of danger and chaos. Slip cast and fired in an electric kiln, these porcelain pieces are reflections of the artist’s own encounter with the environment. “Quarries are phenomenal places, the scale is always so overwhelming, they make me so swamped by that void we have created,” says Kidd.  “And they are are nothing of the size of the actual mountains. Perhaps at some level, I make these pieces almost as memorials for what we have lost in order to take what we need or desire.”

Bio written by Thomas Connors