Virginia Scotchie's ceramics student's did an array of projects that now surround the UofSC McMaster School of Visual Art & Design. These pieces were intended to be temporary but have been permanently placed for several years.
One of the pieces includes a variety of small, delicate flowers placed on top of a stone henge. If you look closely, the details in each flower are very intricate and all different from one another.
The other creations were multiple balls that were created from the ceramic class that all had their own unique characteristic to them. One of the ball installations is placed in the front entrance of McMaster surrounding several flower beds & the Steel Sculpture in front of McMaster. The other ball installation was put on large strings that hand from multiple trees on the backside of McMaster right beside some handmade mosaic tables that a previous class created. This gives students a chance to surround themselves in an eclectic, whimsical, fun environment while studying, eating lunch, or just hanging out with public art around them.
Virginia Scotchie is a ceramic artist and area head of ceramics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. She holds a B.F.A. in ceramics from UNC-Chapel Hill and in 1985 completed her Master of Fine Arts at Alfred University in New York.
Virginia exhibits her work extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and has received numerous awards including the Sydney Meyer Fund International Ceramics Premiere Award from the Shepparton Museum in Victoria, Australia. She has lectured internationally on her work and been an Artist in Residence in Taiwan, Italy, Australia and the Netherlands. Her clay forms reside in many public and private collections and reviews about her work appear in prestigious ceramic publications.
I do not wish for this work to be named or labeled, rather, it is my intention that through the borrowing and reformation of objects the work might trigger one to look closer and find beauty and intrigue in the humble, ordinary and familiar objects that surround us.