The Byronoceros.
Kathryn Moores 2013
Ceramic and oxide.
39cm length.
Lord Byron swims the Venetian Grand Canal as Clara the Rhino.
Moulded hollow clay balls to assemble into stylised rhinos.
The assembled balls with added details.
The second set of stylised rhinos.
The winged rhino representing Venice's patron saint, St. Mark, whose emblem is the winged lion.
Brightly coloured glazed stylised rhinos.
Sculpted wet clay rhino, modelled on Clara, the pet rhino of Venice, thought to be the first in Europe.
Greenware rhino, showing scale against the artist.
After bisque firing, the application of oxides and carbonates provides the range of colours and highlight the textures.
A covering of transparent glaze before the second firing disguises the colours of the oxides and carbonates.
The finished work.
A rhino sculpted in wet clay, again representing the Venetian rhino Clara. The addition of wings is in reference to St. Mark, the patron saint of Venice, whose symbol is the winged lion, seen all over Venice.
Inside the Raku kiln
Raku firing technique for a metallic reduction of a Fume coating on the sculpted St. Mark's rhino.
Close up detail of the cooled Raku St. Mark's rhino.
A 'half' rhino, sculpted in wet clay. The top half is visible as the rhino is sculpted as being semi-submerged, reminiscent of the occasion when the poet Byron, a famous Venetian resident for some time, swam in the Grand Canal. Clara was often bathed in the Grand Canal.
This sculpture only underwent one firing with the application of copper carbonate and manganese dioxide.
Front view of 'half' rhino.
A wet clay rhino rib cage over a hump mould.
Failed firing!
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