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By Sarah Villeneau

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Stoneware, found sisal rope, wire rope, repurposed ceramic tube
60 x 20 x 20 cm

£1,440.00
About the Artwork

Sarah Villeneau’s practice is rooted in an investigation of human hubris in regard to our place in the world and the denial of our corporeal and animal nature. Bringing the inside out, she presents abstracted yet highly suggestive bodily forms that resonate across the natural world, whilst also creating a visceral  response in the viewer.
This piece is a made-to-measure ceramic representation of the average small intestine, with a repurposed ceramic tube and found sisal rope. The importance of the gut in terms of our well-being and decision-making is increasingly gaining credence and recognition as the ‘second brain.’

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Details

Medium: Stoneware, found sisal rope, wire rope, repurposed ceramic tube

Year: 2026

Size: 60 x 20 x 20 cm

Ready to Hang: Yes

The piece is equipped with a found metal bracket and two large screws for secure fixing on the wall. There is a length of internal wire rope that is attached to the main body and travels up through the tubular extension and emerges out of the top of the tube to fit over the bracket.

Sarah Villeneau

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sarah Villeneau (b.1958) fell in love with clay at an evening class in her twenties and subsequently did a certificate course in ceramics, jewellery and textiles at Sir John Cass School of Art, London, then a part-time degree in Ceramics and Textiles at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, followed by an MA in Art and Design at Leeds Metropolitan University, and, finally, an MA in Studio Ceramics:Methodology and Practice at Loughborough University, completed 2014. She is a selected member of the Craft Potters Association, the Royal Society of Sculptors, the Yorkshire Sculptors Group and has been selected for the Homo Faber Guide. She has received numerous awards from the Arts Council and other funding bodies and has exhibited in public galleries in Sheffield (Millenium Gallery) and Doncaster where she had a solo show in 2024. She was selected as one of ten artists to represent Sheffield at the Herrick Gallery in Mayfair in 2019. She has twice exhibited at Discerning Eye at the Mall Gallery and the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show. In 2023 she was selected for Collect Open as part of Collect Art Fair at Somerset House and Ceramic Art London the following year. In 2019 she was invited to exhibit at the International Ceramic Arts Festival in Sasama, Japan.

Hypha Studios Artist: 'ASSEMBLY', curated by Alexandra Carr and Alex Breeze, at Hypha Gallery South Bank (2026)

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