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She was born ln 1 963 ln Asse,west
of Brussels,in
Belgium.She
was attracted tO clay from the gtart,but
her cquaintance with the porcelain of the
Tang and Song dynasties was the deciding
factor for her to devote herself entirely to
porcelain.She
has participated in important exhibitions,in
Belgium and abroad and has receivednumerous
awards.
She creates porcelain objects with a
most universal and extremely sculptural
form—the bowl—a conical form with a raised
edge.A
structure comes int6 being by means of
little colored porcelain strips.which
form a rhythmical,dynamic
entity,“such
as the notes of a contemporary piece of
music".
The bowl—shaped
objects are not glazed,but
rubbed down and polished up,as
a result of which they capture and absorb
the light through the thin but hard
parchment skin.This
turns them into frighteningly fragile and
translucent porcelain objects.Thus
they are really brought to life,almost
trembling on their unsteady base.
Initially,Mieke
Everaet built up her objects from remarkably
bright—colored
fragments of mosaic.Later
she started to experiment with more lyric,sensitive
compositions with gentle pastel shades.The
bowls are more varied in profile and size.In
her last work the modest beauty of sober
colors in shades of white,grey
and beige in combination with repetitive
fragments of strips,is
very noticeable.She
also tries out different forms,irregularly
composed ot fine strips ln tWO alternating
shades.
As a sensible artist,M
ieke Everaet never stops being inspired by
her discoveries.but
she has never been lured into imitation.She
expresses herself with delicacy in her
ceramics.For
Mieke Everaet,the
decoration of her bowls is like a lyric,a
song that is one of a kind.
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