"Called Just Be There, and made in collaboration with the sculptor Emma Rodgers, each form is the result of two people embracing around a soft clay column. The huggers are mostly from Stoke-on-Trent, where Vegas's work in the British Ceramics Biennial, one of more than 60 artists included, is being shown. Some are collapsed thanks to a bear hug. Some are more restrained, the clay holding the imprint of people's feelings about personal space."
"The first time he produced a body of work to be on public show, it was for his ceramics degree finals and it ended up accidentally being thrown in a skip. To his tutors' dismay he insisted on making sculpture rather than the technical ceramics he was supposed to be doing, and had produced a series of abstract female forms."
Johnny Vegas collaborated with sculptor Emma Rodgers on a series called Just Be There, formed by two people embracing a soft clay column. The participants, mainly from Stoke-on-Trent, created varied impressions: some collapsed under bear hugs, others left restrained imprints reflecting feelings about personal space. The work appears in the British Ceramics Biennial among more than 60 artists and will be shown on a table lit by dusty sunlight in an old pottery factory. Vegas originally produced sculptures for his ceramics degree finals that were accidentally discarded, later becoming a comedian before returning to public art in his 50s with installations in St Helens and an exhibition at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.
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