Hook - Amber
In her series for Constructed in Clay, Natascha Madeiski transforms the materials of everyday life and personal history into enduring ceramic form. Using her son’s old toddler bed as the basis for moulds, she reconfigures objects once central to domestic and emotional space into new sculptural structures.
The bed, a site of care and transition, embodies both intimacy and distance: a place where parents read, comfort, and eventually withdraw as a child grows and asserts independence. It is a threshold space, both architectural and emotional, where enclosure gives way to expansion, and the familiar transforms.
Madeiski’s process begins with ephemeral assemblages of foam and fragments, which she casts into plaster and then ceramic, preserving their textures and imperfections. The foam, reminiscent of insulation or acoustic panelling, introduces a material ambiguity—something soft made hard, something designed to absorb now rendered to endure.
Trained in architecture, Madeiski bridges the precision of construction with the spontaneity of handcraft. Her sculptures hover between permanence and impermanence, structure and collapse, emotion and form. Through this process, she reimagines not just discarded materials but the architectures of care, memory, and transition—how the spaces we inhabit, and the objects within them, quietly record the passage of time.
Dimensions: 9.4"H x 2.2"W x 5.5"D
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Hook - Amber
2025
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In her series for Constructed in Clay, Natascha Madeiski transforms the materials of everyday life and personal history into enduring ceramic form. Using her son’s old toddler bed as the basis for moulds, she reconfigures objects once central to domestic and emotional space into new sculptural structures.
The bed, a site of care and transition, embodies both intimacy and distance: a place where parents read, comfort, and eventually withdraw as a child grows and asserts independence. It is a threshold space, both architectural and emotional, where enclosure gives way to expansion, and the familiar transforms.
Madeiski’s process begins with ephemeral assemblages of foam and fragments, which she casts into plaster and then ceramic, preserving their textures and imperfections. The foam, reminiscent of insulation or acoustic panelling, introduces a material ambiguity—something soft made hard, something designed to absorb now rendered to endure.
Trained in architecture, Madeiski bridges the precision of construction with the spontaneity of handcraft. Her sculptures hover between permanence and impermanence, structure and collapse, emotion and form. Through this process, she reimagines not just discarded materials but the architectures of care, memory, and transition—how the spaces we inhabit, and the objects within them, quietly record the passage of time.
About The Artist
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In this recent project, Natascha Madeiski seeks to draw attention to discarded materials from the building and packaging industries. By collecting off-cuts and remnants of various foam materials, she transforms what is typically seen as waste into quick, intuitive sculptural compositions. These ephemeral assemblages serve as the basis for a unique process where ceramic materials are cast into plaster moulds taken from the foam sculptures. The fragile scraps, held together with tape, imprint their textures and contours onto the transparent, refined surface of the ceramics. Through this process, Natascha Madeiski aims to elevate these overlooked materials, preserving their transient forms in a durable, presentable medium. This work invites reflection on the lifecycle of materials and the beauty that can emerge from what is often discarded.
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