In musician and artist Nick Cave’s ceramics, the devil is a flawed individual, blessed and cursed with human weaknesses. In his 17 figurines, Cave traces the fluctuations of a life punctuated by a series of defining events, an artistic echo of Shakespeare’s ‘seven ages of man’. ‘What started as a desire to create a single small devil figure as a vehicle for an intense red glaze became a journey towards some kind of absolution from a series of shattering events,’ says Cave of the ceramic artworks, which encapsulate both an artistic and religious struggle (and follow previous ceramics such as a Nick Cave egg cup).
