House of Goblin b. 2023
Biography
(established in London, 2023; based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK)
House of Goblin is a ceramic artist collective specialising in individually hand-built, sculptural utilitarian ware that blurs the boundaries between function and ornament, domesticity and artwork. Each piece is designed to be experienced sensorially: to be seen, touched, and even tasted. The inception of House of Goblin was rooted in discussions around the role of identity in contemporary art. While viewers may come to learn through conversation or context who is behind House of Goblin, the intention is for the work to stand under that collective name alone, a newly discovered artist, perhaps, whose identity is secondary to the experience of the work itself. While it is undeniably crucial for marginalised communities to assert and express identity through authorship, embodiment, and performance, House of Goblin emerged as a response to what can sometimes become an overly determined expectation for artworks to disclose or rely upon biographical narrative.
Through its very ambiguity, House of Goblin resists the current demand for immediate legibility, whether of the object or its maker. The work seeks to question where and how meaning is located in art, particularly within the shifting boundaries between craft and high art, or between painting and sculpture. It resists the tendency to fix both people and objects into easily consumable representations.
House of Goblin has exhibited with Cob Gallery, London, UK; Galerie PCP, Paris, France; KNWLS, SS25 Womenswear collection collaboration, London, UK; Gertrude platform, London, UK; Hermès, SS19 Womenswear collection, Paris, France.
Works
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House of GoblinScallop Sconce 2, 2024Brass, steel, glazed stoneware34 x 43 x 8 cm
13 3/8 x 16 7/8 x 3 1/8 in
Exhibitions
