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Dancing in the Womb 6
2023 Fractal Waveflux
Anthropogenic Vase
Salome 1
Spun silk, merino wool, mercerised cotton, silk organzine Each 200 × 58 cm
Birch 60 × 60 × 60 cm
Clay, glaze, gold 73 × 30 × 30 cm
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Rezia Wahid
rickdrako Ricardo Mondragon
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Richard Prentice
Rie Inoue
Rezia Wahid is a Bangladeshi British artist specialising in traditional hand weaving with fine natural fibres such as cotton, linen, silk and wool. Working with translucent and hand-dyed yarns, often coloured with natural dyes, Wahid captures air, light and movement within cloth. Rooted in personal narratives of feminism, heritage and daily life, Rezia’s practice transforms weaving into a medium for storytelling, community connection and dialogue. This is the sixth piece in a series of handwoven lengths inspired by Rezia Wahid’s pregnancies and experiences of motherhood. The works represent a narrative that reflects the position of a South Asian female artist. Wahid employs plain weave with floating weft inserts, a technique rooted in the Bangladeshi Jamdani tradition. This approach enables the fabric to move in tune with inner rhythms, connecting cultural heritage with personal expression.
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Ricardo Mondragón is a London-based Mexican artist whose practice bridges music, science and visual art. Influenced by his background in music composition, Mondragón works with sound, vibration and frequency to create sculptural and visual forms that reflect harmony and cosmic order. Fractal Waveflux explores the phenomenon of self-organisation in wave alignment, where individual waves synchronise their phases to create emergent, organised patterns. This spontaneous behaviour, observed across physics and nature, can be seen in examples such as laser light coherence and collective rhythms in biological systems. The work reflects on how complexity arises from simple repetitions, revealing an underlying order within apparent chaos.
Richard Prentice is a British ceramic artist and studio potter based in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Using ceramics for both functional and sculptural forms, Prentice explores the impact of manmade pollutants, climate change, erosion and rising sea levels, highlighting the fragile relationship between humanity and the natural world. Anthropogenic Vase reflects on global warming and coastal erosion along the Welsh coast. The stoneware vase is built in three hand-thrown sections with a cracked seam revealing a lustrous red interior. Sixteen tubular forms resemble arteries, coral, and chimneys—symbols of resilience and pollution. Multiple firings create coastal tones with gold accents, making the piece a meditation on human impact and ecological change.
Rie Inoue’s practice is rooted in self-portraiture and conceptual experimentation, exploring themes such as love, madness, the complexity of desire, and the tension between devotion and freedom in relationships. She is particularly drawn to questions of ageing and gender, addressing the realities of sexism and ageism in Japanese society while also examining the possibilities of love and freedom in later life. To express the fleeting and transient nature of human desire, which inevitably rots away, Rie Inoue created a self-portrait with a 3D-printed head of the man she loves, exposing the fleeting, destructive and absurd nature of human desire.
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