
Abigail Dodd

Jolly Chimp
Glazed Stoneware Ceramic, Hand-Stitched Fabric and Brass
21cm x 15.2cm
2024​
Brightly painted toy monkey, wearing yellow waistcoat with a red button, and red and white striped trousers. Sat on circular circus style wooden stand, holding brass cymbals in each hand, in a darkly lit room.

Jack-in-a-Box
Glazed Stoneware Ceramic, Steel, Enamel Paint, Wood
Dimensions Variable
2024
A smiley and sinister clown figure peaking its head out of a steel box that is lettered with colourful typography of letters 'A' and 'B', on top of a wooden circular red and yellow circus themed stand, in a darkly lit room. With a ceramic fallen circus ticket to the left of the floor.


A Little Bit About The Artist
A Statement From The Artist
Overrun by panic and restlessness, my multidisciplinary practice is an autobiographical retelling of my challenges and consciousness through a distorted dystopian lens. Exaggerating anxieties with themes of the Grotesque, Abject and the Uncanny, my pieces persistently play with organic forms and matter, using my own skin as a physical medium for sculpture. Pushing boundaries using the absence and presence of a material, audiences are compelled into a voyeuristic experience, visualising my past intimately.
Working with ceramics; latex, live casting, resin and moving image, alongside human skin, my practice propels fragility and sterility yet a sensation of uncertainty and inhuman existence, questioning safety. By hand-sculpting ceramics to depict the everyday, narratives are controlled, and viewer’s perception of familiar objects transformed. Made to be featured within installations, my practice uses the ambience of its environment to communicate with the individual works.
Whats your favourite monster and why?
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May be basic, but I find vampires pretty interesting and oddly fun.​
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Do you like scary movies? And if so which ones?
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Funnily despite my practice, I don't as I find them too scary! Though having recently watched Nosferatu, I might have to start watching more
What’s the biggest influence on your work?​
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Everyday activities - with my practice responding to my experiences, I have found that there are so many ways to apply your life to art. This and my favourite artist Lindsey Mendick, being a ceramicist I find her work truly inspiring.