Bouke de Vries photographed by Tim Higgings in 2011.
Image courtesy of Bouke de Vries.
Bouke de Vries was born in the Netherlands and studied fashion design. He worked for big names in the fashion industry including helping John Galliano with his first few lines of clothing. But de Vries was not satisfied. He was searching for something more meaningful while questioning value. With some encouragement from his partner, de Vries returned to school to study ceramic restoration. After which he intended to work to restore value to broken pieces of history. But instead he came out a fine artist, using broken china as his medium. De Vries brings new meaning and life to broken antiques through his ceramic work. He carries through his fascination with the question of what gives a work of art its value and how can broken old china be reimagined. Check out this New York Times article for more!
War & Pieces at The Holburne Museum, 2012, 19th-21st century porcelain, plastic, sugar, gilded brass and mixed.
Image courtesy of Bouke de Vries.
A Pair of Memory Vessels, 2014. Contemporary glass following the original form of its contents; the collected remains of a 17th century Japanese porcelain vase with its cover and pair.
Image courtesy of Adrian Sassoon.
Image courtesy of Maximal Space.
