Blue Bonzo

Blue Bonzo. A reliquary.

Stoneware and mixed media. 22cm. A sacred final vessel for a lost beloved one, or simply a stylish safe haven for your Maltesers. It’s up to you. Both even – no judgements.

The time was right to add colour to my usually raw black and stern-ish canopic jars, and Bonzo seemed to be the right fit. My vessels naturally have the look and feel of cast iron, so it seemed right to give them a rusted and crusted vibe. What I’ve done, really, is saved whoever ends up with this chap from waiting a millennia or so to get just the ‘look, which would be a proper ball-ache and no mistake.

I’ll have made just one of these, hand thrown, (once I have modelled the head, I take a mould for future incarnations), the silhouette of this one is obviously a nod to, if not a steal from the great Keith Murray’s transcendent work for Wedgwood in the 30’s.