Prime Gallery is pleased to present new works by Harlan House, a master potter renowned for his drop-dead elegant porcelain vases, dinnerware, and teapots. This exhibition showcases several new bodies of work, including inventive variants of familiar pottery forms, an exquisite 6-piece porcelain dinnerware set, and for the first time at the gallery, wonderfully fresh oil paintings inspired by the artist’s beloved garden. 

Images of flowers abound in this exhibition. They hug the rim of each piece of dinnerware and are a central theme in the artist’s paintings. As always, House’s work is elegant, graceful and strong. There’s a light-hearted and wry humour about it too, particularly in the paintings where cheerful floral bouquets sit next to styro-boxes of take out foods. These works from the ”Take-out Series”, with incongruous titles such as “Tulips and Lemon Chicken” and “Tulips and Chicken Balls”, are oddly funny but designed to thoughtfully reflect on our increasingly fragile relationship with the natural world and each other.

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