We acquired this piece in South Africa in 1993, and are only now making it available.
About being an artist in Africa, the well known Tania stated “ Only when one leaves this continent for a while and then comes back does one
recognise a subtle but pervasive energy, for want of a better word, that
seems to emanate from the surface of this continent. Permeating it’s flora
it’s fauna and it’s people. This vitality may very well be a subjective
experience but I do see evidence of this in the creativity, particularly
ceramics.
The colours, the vibrancy, the fresh and new surfaces, the
immediacy, to me are all evidence of a rawness that I feel is unfettered and
untempered by hundreds of years of civilisation. There is also fertility derived from a cross pollination of cultures which I feel makes South African
ceramics unique and globally exciting.
The ceramic sculptures of Tania
Babb make the proverbial fat lady sing with the essence of womanhood.
She
creates her sculptures and teaches ceramics from her studio home.
Height: 6 ½" with base, and 5 ½" without the included base.
Width: 2" x Depth: 2 ¼"