Kristin McKirdy
ceramic
46.2 x 23 cm
18.19 x 9.06 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8553
ceramic
18.5 x 46 cm
7.28 x 18.11 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8551
ceramic
38.5 x 20 cm
15.16 x 7.87 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8547
ceramic
20 x 40.5 cm
7.87 x 15.94 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8532
ceramic
30.5 x 25 x 19.8 cm
12.01 x 9.84 x 7.8 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8541
ceramic
27 x 39 cm
10.63 x 15.35 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8535
ceramic
35.7 x 30.5 x 12.7 cm
14.06 x 12.01 x 5 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8540
ceramic
33 x 22 cm
12.99 x 8.66 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8531
ceramic
20 x 34.5 x 21 cm
7.87 x 13.58 x 8.27 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8542
ceramic
20 x 40.5 cm
7.87 x 15.94 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8533
ceramic
35 x 33.5 x 15.5 cm
13.78 x 13.19 x 6.1 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8549
ceramic
36 x 18.4 x 23.2 cm
14.17 x 7.24 x 9.13 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8536
ceramic
35.33 x 33 x 12.2 cm
13.91 x 12.99 x 4.8 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8539
ceramic
34.7 x 31 x 19 cm
13.66 x 12.2 x 7.48 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8548
ceramic
39 x 30.5 x 16 cm
15.35 x 12.01 x 6.3 in
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. 8537
Born in 1958 in Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Fontainbleau, France
The ceramics of Kristin McKirdy have the playfulness, precision, and unidentifiable function of toys and proto-scientific artefacts. The Toronto-born, Paris-based ceramicist is known for her flat-cut geometric volumes in which dull and rough skins conceal sleek, gleaming, and colourful cores. Extremely skilled and precise with her glazes and textures, she carves and sculpts into the surface, scratching the outer layer as if it were exposed to a rough environment. Next to these worked surfaces, the inner core appears even more fragile and precious, an almond in its shell or the marrow of a bone.
Borrowing from the visual language of still life, McKirdy offers a filtered reality, where sizes and proportions are shifted, containers are full, and fruits are hard as stone, where colours and textures are carefully balanced. She proceeds with variations around simple themes and games of combinations, repetitions, and compositions. Fruits, icebergs, rocks, eggs, bowls, mortars, cups, bottles, and architectural elements are the many typologies from which she draws her inspiration, interpreted and rendered as sculptural objects.