CreatorSarah (Sassy) ParkTitleHomeopathics for VinceDate2017MediumCeramicDimensionsH. 16.5cm x W. 16.5cmArtist StatementHomeopathics For Vince is a still life painted on porcelain clay. The scene is a corner of the kitchen table where a glass of tinctured water, covered with a saucer and spoon, sits waiting to treat Vince, the ginger cat, for his sore nose. His dose is a teaspoon mix of water at dinner time. I've found homeopathics works well with animals, probably due to their lack of emotional layers. It worked with the chickens, so fingers crossed for Vince.
Working with clay offers a rich diversity on which to paint and here there is also an affinity between ceramics and the domestic which echoes the subject matter.Accession NumberG2020.21.1Credit LineDonated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts ProgramAccess AdviceFor research purposes only. No reproduction without permission of Yarrila Arts and Museum.
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Significance Statement
The work "Homeopathics for Vince" was a finalist in the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery's signature program, Still: National Still Life Award. In 2017, this award was expanded from having a focus solely on still life painting to include artworks in all mediums. This still life painted on porcelain clay signals a fresh and contemporary interpretation of the still life genre and new direction for the gallery's collection. The still life genre is the specialist focus of the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery’s collection, with still life artworks identified as the first priority in the gallery’s collection policy, Section 2.4.2 (1): “Works in this section reflect the still life genre, as per artworks acquired through the National Still Life Award (Still) as well as through donation, purchase, transfer and bequest.”
Sassy Park is a Sydney-based artist whose career has steadily gained momentum over the last decade. Trained as a painter, she now works in ceramics and in 2018 completed a Masters of Fine Arts at the National Art School. She explores the history of domestic ceramics and its genres and creates both pots and figurative works. Pots are often treated as surfaces for painting and incorporate wry messages or commentary in hand-lettered text. Park works with the daily familiarity of ceramics to commemorate and observe the everyday, forgotten and over-looked aspects of life, particularly domestic life. These are strong and persistent themes of the still life genre which make Park’s work an ideal fit for the Gallery’s collection focus. The small scale of the work belies its power to draw the viewer in to look more closely and consider the minutiae of daily life.
