Hillary Kane
the weight of water, 2022
Soda-fired stoneware with black clay slip; double-walled vessel, wood
23h x 20w x 16d in
HK004
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Rite of passage, 2022
Soda-fired stoneware with manganese dioxide; double-walled vessel
14h x 11w x 10d in
HK001
SOLD
Hillary Kane
slumberer, 2022
Soda-fired stoneware with manganese dioxide; double-walled vessel
23h x 14w x 10d in
HK003
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Womb form I, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; double-walled vessel
25h x 20w x 26d in
HK009
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Womb form II, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; double-walled vessel
14h x 13w x 13d in
HK011
$2,800.00
Hillary Kane
Lunar Cusp, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; double-walled vessel
17h x 17w x 17d in
HK010
$3,200.00
Hillary Kane
inner bloom, 2022
Soda-fired stoneware with manganese dioxide; double-walled vessel
15h x 17w x 13d in
HK002
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Dua Luna, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; hollow vessel
16h x 14w x 10d in
HK014
$2,600.00
Hillary Kane
Ossein shard, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; hollow vessel
28h x 8w x 11d in
HK012
$2,400.00
Hillary Kane
Curraugh, pierced, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; hollow vessel
33h x 9w x 9.50d in
HK013
$3,200.00
Hillary Kane
Ischium, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; double-walled vessel
22h x 17w x 11d in
HK015
$2,800.00
Hillary Kane
Ischial Translation, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware; double-walled vessel
25h x 18w x 9d in
HK016
$3,200.00
Hillary Kane
Vase Block, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware
7.50h x 6.50w x 6d in
HK023
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Teabowl I, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware
3.75h x 4.50w in
HK006
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Teabowl II, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware
4h x 4.25w in
HK007
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Teabowl III, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware
4.75h x 4.50w in
HK008
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Sentinel, color, 2022
Soda-fired stoneware; faceted slab forms
23h x 8w x 8d in
HK017
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Sentinel, black, 2022
Soda-fired black stoneware; faceted slab forms
20h x 8w x 8d in
HK005
$ 1,200.00
Hillary Kane
single-stem vase blocks, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware
5h x 4.50w x 2d in
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Sake for 3, 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware
5.50h x 4w x 4d in (bottle), 2h x 2.5w x 2d in (cups)
HK020
SOLD
Hillary Kane
mini sentinel collection, 2022
soda-fired stoneware
7.50h x 1.50w x 1d in
SOLD
Hillary Kane
tea containers (6), 2022
Anagama-fired stoneware w hard wood lids
4h x 4w x 4d in
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Migration, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
46h x 46w in
HK022
$ 6,500.00
Hillary Kane
Ember, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
48h x 48w in
HK041
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Shroud, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
48h x 48w in
HK042
$ 6,500.00
Hillary Kane
where the sea meets the sky, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
12h x 12w in
HK043
SOLD
Hillary Kane
dusk, barely, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
12h x 12w in
HK044
$ 1,400.00
Hillary Kane
the soft edge of obscurity, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
12h x 12w in
HK045
SOLD
Hillary Kane
Sonata, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
12h x 12w in
HK046
SOLD
Hillary Kane
this uncontainable night, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
12h x 12w in
HK047
SOLD
Hillary Kane
within the downpour, 2022
raw paper-clay and oil color on canvas
12h x 12w in
HK048
$ 1,400.00
For Hillary Kane, place is of essence. Over the years, the map coordinates of home has shifted across countries and continents and delivered a richness in languages and cultures, inspiration and challenges that permeate her creative practice. Originally having studied painting and printmaking (in the States and in France), it was her work with local farmers in a remote village in west Cameroon that triggered her gut-pull to the medium of clay. An immersion at Penland School of Crafts solidified this interest and subsequent experiences from New England to New Mexico initiated and strengthened her passion for wood-firing in particular.
Many moons and adventures later, the tidal pull of the world led her ultimately to settle in Bali, Indonesia where she now continues to focus her creativity in both clay and paint, enjoying the dynamic of two very different mediums and their possible confluence. Wood-fire ceramics has dominated her practice and led her to numerous residencies and conferences globally, as well as to pioneer several wood-firing kilns in Bali.
In 2010 she co-founded Gaya Ceramic Arts Center (Ubud, Bali) and has since been directing its growth: developing an international workshop program and artist residency, hosting as well as instructing, and ever continuing with the making process. Included in that creativity has been the life-changing journey of raising twin daughters. At very present, she lives a bi-hemispheric lifestyle, splitting time between the lush and heady tropical backdrop of her island life and the cyclical seasons of her New England upbringing-- embracing the duality of home in two disparate worlds; searching with her artwork for a fluency between them.
U N E A R T H E D : Relics of Memory
These are excavations—a digging free of thoughts and reflections, fears and prayers and wonder—transmuted by fire into rock-like totems. They are worry-stones befit for a palm, magnified in scale to lend the proper weight to their remembered significance. They are simple forms, curved or torn or pierced, bowl-like studies in heft and balance, ambiguous references to shapes vaguely corporeal. They are a human archaeology.
