2 Longwood Gardens Tickets & Flower Sculpture

Sensing, 2024

Jeanne Blissett Robertson

Stoneware, luster, silk thread,
9.5" H x 9" W x 9"D

"A flower blossoms for its own joy." - Oscar Wilde

This beautiful, otherworldly flower by Resident Artist Jeanne Blissett Robertson is part of the artist's ongoing exploration into natural forms and our relationship to the environment. Tall and graceful, this matte black bloom is reminiscent of a lily with four layers of gracefully unfurling leaves. The sculpture is adorned with jewels that hang on fine strands of thread, delicate as a spider's web. Bring this stunning piece home and enjoy two tickets to Longwood Gardens! Wander through enchanting landscapes where botanical beauty flourishes around every corner.

Two General Admission Tickets to Longwood Gardens. See winning packet for details.

Artist Statement

I am a ceramic artist exploring the interaction and interconnectivity between nature, design, and human experience in the context of our current climate crisis. My project-based practice responds to different natural topics (usually site-specific to where I am working) such as coral in Abu Dhabi, Horse Mussel reefs, seasonal star constellations, and most recently metamorphic rocks. Works visualize incongruous relationships between organic forms and symbols/graphics that exemplify human design. Continuing this theme, I use a mixture of ceramic processes such as slip-casting, slab-building, hand-building, salt-glazing, and painting with matte underglazes, to juxtapose aesthetic styles. Present in my work is a fluidity between what's man-made and what's from natural origin, putting into question how something is formed and how different timescales connect and interact with each other.

Artist's Biography

Jeanne Blissett Robertson graduated with a BA Hons in Sculpture & Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2015. Since then she has lived and worked internationally carrying out artist residencies in Abu Dhabi (Manarat Al Saadiyat), Mexico (Trapo Galeria), Edinburgh (Edinburgh Ceramics Workshop) and most recently Ullapool, Scotland (An Talla Solais). She recently received an Arts Council England grant, 'Developing Your Creative Practice', for a self-tailored ceramics training program where she learnt from crafts people based in Scotland. Her activity included salt-glazing in Isle of Skye, making geological glazes with rocks from Assynt (world heritage site), foraging for clay and minerals, and multiple-part mould making for slip-casting. Recent exhibitions include 'To A Green Thought', DVAA, Philadelphia, 2022, 'Off-Kilter', Drill Hall, Edinburgh, 2021, and 'Running Parallel', Lewes Light Festival, 2020. Alongside her practice, Robertson delivers experimental art workshops for people of all ages and abilities.

Donated by the Artist - Jeanne Blissett Robertson & Longwood Gardens

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