Two Dogs And A Bow Walked Into A Platter

By Karima Baadilla

$960

ARTIST STATEMENT

'How to disappoint a potter series: sausage dogs aren’t baroque enough'

"I reclaim discarded and unwanted ceramic molds, pouring slip into their 'perfect' forms only to scribble my own stories across them—a wonky sausage dog, a persistent bird—in classic blue-and-white and sometimes other colours. These pieces are quiet rebellions: the industrial made intimate, the serious softened. The molds remember their past lives; my drawings insist on something new. The bird always comes back. The dog never fits. And that’s the point."

BIO

Karima Baadilla abandoned her career as a certified practicing accountant, and the lucrative career ladder. To her own surprise she went on a sabbatical and then decided to pursue a more creative life.

Karima has exhibited widely across Australia with her works held in a number of private collections both locally and internationally. In 2021 Karima won the Mark Brabham Emerging Artist Award presented as part of the Klytie Pate Ceramics Awards. In 2020 she was a finalist for a number of art prizes including the prestigious Bayside Acquisitive Prize (VIC), The Stanthorpe Art Prize (QLD), Muswellbrook Art Prize (NSW), and Collie Art Prize (WA). Karima was also the recipient of the Maribyrnong Rapid Grant funded by The City of Maribyrnong (VIC) and The Sidney Myer Grant funded by The Myer Foundation in 2020.  

Most recently Karima just completed her honours degree in Visual Art from La Trobe university, she lives in Central Goldfields Victoria with her partner and two very silly sausage dogs.