So, I’ve talked about it for a couple of months now, but the Lost Dog exhibition through eyra illustration gallery is now LIVE! I’m so excited to share with you Eleonor Boström’s beautiful ceramic works. She’s sculpted dogs, a boat, and dogs with boats. It’s all for sale in the Lost Dog shop. You can also view the show in its entirety here. In the coming weeks I’ll be adding to this website and adding some fun animations.
Eleonor’s friend, Emelie Johansson wrote about her ceramic pieces, placing these dogs contextually in the scope of Eleonor’s work. She writes,
Eleonor Boström is a ceramic artist from Stockholm, Sweden who currently lives and works in Berlin. Since graduating from Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in 2010, she runs a workshop and has participated in several exhibitions in Sweden as well as the UK and Germany.
Ever since a course at school when Eleonor tenderly clarified the ten most endangered animals by ten beautiful sculptures, animals have followed Eleonor in her work. The endangered animals were later replaced with a closer friend, her dog Tess. The dog as a sculpted figurine also found it´s way into Eleonor’s tableware. One day the dog sat in a cup (and since that day it is a blockbuster favorite) another day the dog helped me salty my food “salty tears”, salt shaker.
With an artist’s sharp pen and playful hand-shaped figures, Eleonor builds her creative fictional world. Eleonor operates the naive with complete certainty, because despite the playfulness and the intuitive conclusion, there is no trace of hesitation.
Figurines are going somewhere, as a viewer you enter an event you immediately know is not the end, but if not at the beginning, so in the middle. The dogs look away and despite not searching for eye contact, they are communicating. The question is not always what the dogs are saying, the question is rather, what we see in them? Eleanor leaves prevail for us to see for ourselves where the story goes on, whatever coastline the dogs may have in mind.
