We last shared Oliver Cain’s interesting work in June 2019, Communal Conversation, which featured two white ceramic toilet bowls lit with LEDs, winning him the Eden Arts Art Schools Award 2019 – a highly-coveted inter-art school award, with $5,000 prize money.
Design and Contemporary Arts BCE graduand (2019), Oliver Cain, has won another award, the Craigs Investment Partners Youth 3D Art Award at the 2020 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 3D, for his porcelain Fruit Bowl II.
Judge Ruth Watson described Oliver’s work as: “White porcelain, so redolent of cleaning and cleanliness, are key to this work’s sly humour. Unlike Duchamp’s famous, bedpan-like object, today’s urinal is more like a wall-mounted vase, here bearing some very strange fruit. So often a stand-in for a body part, the bananas here rigidly overflow their containment, threatening to spill out onto the floor. The artist writes about questioning shame; this work joyously challenges and transcends disapprobation.”
We’re very proud of Oliver and the teaching staff that have had a part in influencing and guiding him.
Well done ‘graduand’ -Please correct typo in the title.
Thank you Mun, we have corrected the typo.