Based on a work Hatch created as the focal point of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal’s 2023 exhibition “Parall(elles) A History of Women in Design,” Duco is inspired by a pair of Asian-inspired Minton “cloisonné” ware, designed by Christopher Dresser, c.1870. Molly Hatch’s ceramic wall installations may best represent the “grey space” between fine art, contemporary design, and craft that has become de rigueur for museum collections and modern collectors. Using ceramic surfaces as both her canvas and subject matter, she appropriates and re-contextualizes historic pattern and imagery across compositions of hand-painted earthenware plates, the glazed surfaces of the plates collectively become a fragmented canvas for her delicate, painterly re-renderings. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally garnering her a loyal and fervent following.

Materials: 60 Painted Porcelain Plates.