Lorna is a multi-disciplinary creative. Now in her late-fifties, she is pursuing her life-long love of making, and further developing her skills as a ceramic artist. In 2020, after studying part time, she graduated with a first class honours degree in 3D Design and Contemporary Craft . The style and discipline developed over many years in the creative industries, feed directly into her work as an emerging artist.
Decorated £1,200
Plain undecorated £600
23 x 20 cm
Wedgwood Blue, Cobalt Blue or Black
Contact: lorna@lornayabsley.com
This subversive work is a blend of both digital and traditional craft practice that challenges the technical limitations of the ceramic process. Inspired by Wedgwood’s Jasperware, Lorna has re-animated this ubiquitous classic with digital glitch and a contemporary narrative, in contrast to the sentimental ornament that some Jasperware has become associated with.
Based on the Wedgwood’s Portland Vase, the neo-classical bas-relief figures are replaced with contemporary urban figures, these are further fragmented and broken to resonate with the glitch. By employing exacting digital techniques, Lorna aims to echo the refinement achieved by Wedgwood’s master craftsmen, and pay homage to Josiah Wedgwood’s Jasperware masterpiece.
£245
This is new work, and a complete departure from my previous highly technical digital work. A pure indulgence in hand building. These naïve nautical representations are inspired by my love of all things boating.
16 elements in total
Includes : Signed photographic print and packaged in a gift box
£450
Slip Cast Porcelain, Porcelain Sprig Figures
Height 17cm
First iteration of Jasper Wedgwood work.
Work in progress
Still a work in progress. Laser cut clay and lino, mishima technique.
Coasters - high fired parion clay.
Large bowl - porcelain.
#downandoutdaybed
This work is in response to the homeless and the extremes of the rich, poor divide: the have’s and the have not’s.
Cardboard is a throwaway material for most of us, yet offers lifesaving shelter, comfort and insulating warmth for the homeless and displaced.
The Baroque cardboard daybed is a direct replica of the daybed in the Library at Mount Edgcumbe House, Cornwall, for whom this work was created as part of a site specific exhibition.
There is a short film available about the making of the daybed and features Gary and Gadget two homeless gentlemen currently sleeping rough in Plymouth.
#downandoutdaybed
Lorna Yabsley - Photographer Maker
Student Medal Project 2019
Winner of The Grand Second Prize
Awarded annually by Thomas Fattorini Ltd for overall excellence in the medallic medium.
‘be breast aware’
“I chose the theme of breast cancer as this is a subject close to my heart, having experienced this awful disease and thankfully come through it. As a professional photographer, I have photographed many women sufferers to help raise awareness and to help women come to terms with body image issues. This collection of images are used in many centres in the UK and are widely published.
In my work I draw on my skill as a photographer and my archive of images and I am developing my skills as a maker in this direction, I am particularly interested in embracing making in traditional materials utilising high tech methods of 3d scanning printing.
I wanted the shape and form of my art medal to be soft and tactile in the hand, leaving a small lump on the edge to remind us all to check our breasts”
Lorna Yabsley
Not for sale
A complex make, consisting of a thirteen part mold. Design created in CAD and plaster molds created via cnc milling.
High fired bone china with laser etched text.
A comment about the factory dairy industry
Not for sale
Fowey Lighthouse
Prototype for ‘Wedgwood Redefined’ 3d scanning from life to create moulds for ceramic sprigs applied to a traditional neoclassical shape vase.
This work will continue for Lorna’s final major project and complete her BA studies as a contemporary maker in 2020
