An Exhibition by Katie Jacobs
July 21 – Aug 15, 2009

Melbourne ceramicist Katie Jacobs has created a beautiful frozen landscape of snow capped mountains, planes and clouds, in the latest exhibition in the Pieces of Eight Gallery window, Raining In My Heart.  The poetic beauty in this Buddy Holly song title is illustrated so evocatively as a metaphor by Jacobs who uses porcelain to create this body of work.  For her, the icy appearance and cold surface represents “hidden and fragile emotions”.

The scene she creates was inspired by a regional exhibition she was involved in earlier this year where she faced the realities of drought stricken central Victoria.  Jacobs created a limited series of large raining clouds which were intended to function as a kind of talisman which would bring rain to a parched land.  As she explains, “I liked the romance of using rain as a metaphor for tears and sadness”.

For Pieces of Eight, she continues exploring and developing this concept, symbolising the preciousness of rain by suspending shiny silver raindrops from the clouds in a more delicate and intimate scale.  While her rainclouds may not be guaranteed to produce rain, they might just cure your winter blues.