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Hylton Nel at home in Calitzdorp, 2024, photographed by Pieter Hugo
STEVENSON is pleased to present Things Made Over Time, a mini-retrospective of the ceramics of artist-potter Hylton Nel.
The plates, bowls, vases and sculptures included in this exhibition are shown chronologically as a timeline, starting with works created in 1960s as a student in Antwerp, and concluding with plates made in 2024.
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Since the early 1990s Nel has inscribed the date of the firing onto his objects, their day of birth, so to speak. The works thus become like entries in the artist’s diary, memorialising the day, the thought, the sensibility.
Alongside these autobiographical notes, Things Made Over Time highlights the combination of curiosity, aesthetics and utility that is key to Nel’s practice.
For Nel, there is no colour, shape, glaze or decoration that is incidental or without significance. He sees the repetition inherent to his vessels as infinite prompts for variation