After a ten year hiatus, Miranda Aisling returned to pottery in 2021 with a new series: Chubby Clay Bodies.
Chubby Clay Bodies is a light-hearted, celebratory exploration of the natural shapes and forms found both in people and in pottery. The voluptuous, tactile pots encourage you to hold them gently and invite you to hold yourself with the same care. The Chubby Clay Bodies are wheel-thrown and hand-altered in Aisling’s pottery studio in the Gloucester community of Lanesville.
Aisling studied ceramics at Mary Baldwin University from 2009-2011, culminating in her first exhibition Common Themes
Unlike abstract oil painting, which has a clear linear ancestry, functional and decorated pottery was developed across the world by communities who had no way of being in touch. This exhibition featured three functional dinner sets inspired by communities from across time and geography that, despite having no explicit connections, created functional pots of similar shape and size and geometric patterning. The fourth dinner set include place settings from each of the cultures and a center piece that incorporated the patterns from all three.
