Roadwytches Starting Mask, 2025. Libby Bove
Ceramic stoneware, Mixed Media
30 x 35 x 14.5cm
Libby Bove is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and folklorist. Her work is centred around ideas which reposition folk custom and magical practice back at the forefront of daily life. Drawing on archival methodologies and documentary, her work slips between fact and fiction. By employing traditional craft processes, plausibility is woven into constructed myths; transposing ideas of ancient customs, traditions and rituals into incongruous contemporary settings, non-existent pasts, and speculative future landscapes. Working across a range of media including ceramics, textiles and found objects, she creates sculptural works, masks, and wearable costume pieces. These physical elements are brought together through performative photographic tableaux, where they become visual narratives that evoke both archival documentation and surreal fever dreams. Authenticity, and the potential for the work to be believable, is integral to her practice; physical works are often accompanied by ‘field’ recordings, ‘documentation’ of folk songs, and descriptive ‘historic’ texts, all aimed at crafting a palpable form of surround sound storytelling.
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Ceramic stoneware, Mixed Media
30 x 35 x 14.5cm
Libby Bove is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and folklorist. Her work is centred around ideas which reposition folk custom and magical practice back at the forefront of daily life. Drawing on archival methodologies and documentary, her work slips between fact and fiction. By employing traditional craft processes, plausibility is woven into constructed myths; transposing ideas of ancient customs, traditions and rituals into incongruous contemporary settings, non-existent pasts, and speculative future landscapes. Working across a range of media including ceramics, textiles and found objects, she creates sculptural works, masks, and wearable costume pieces. These physical elements are brought together through performative photographic tableaux, where they become visual narratives that evoke both archival documentation and surreal fever dreams. Authenticity, and the potential for the work to be believable, is integral to her practice; physical works are often accompanied by ‘field’ recordings, ‘documentation’ of folk songs, and descriptive ‘historic’ texts, all aimed at crafting a palpable form of surround sound storytelling.
Shipping prices are fior UK, contact us for a quote on worldwide delivery. info@fieldsystem.co.uk
Ceramic stoneware, Mixed Media
30 x 35 x 14.5cm
Libby Bove is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and folklorist. Her work is centred around ideas which reposition folk custom and magical practice back at the forefront of daily life. Drawing on archival methodologies and documentary, her work slips between fact and fiction. By employing traditional craft processes, plausibility is woven into constructed myths; transposing ideas of ancient customs, traditions and rituals into incongruous contemporary settings, non-existent pasts, and speculative future landscapes. Working across a range of media including ceramics, textiles and found objects, she creates sculptural works, masks, and wearable costume pieces. These physical elements are brought together through performative photographic tableaux, where they become visual narratives that evoke both archival documentation and surreal fever dreams. Authenticity, and the potential for the work to be believable, is integral to her practice; physical works are often accompanied by ‘field’ recordings, ‘documentation’ of folk songs, and descriptive ‘historic’ texts, all aimed at crafting a palpable form of surround sound storytelling.
Shipping prices are fior UK, contact us for a quote on worldwide delivery. info@fieldsystem.co.uk