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Rustic Newfoundland-inspired pottery

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Newfoundland ceramic artist Michael Flaherty spent three months alone on Grey Island, a remote and desolate island on Newfoundland’s North Coast. A kind of rugged artist residency, the experience inspired Flaherty to produce a collection of sculpted pieces that explore the island’s history of resettlement and how nature now occupies its uninhabited landscape. Titled by numbers of the birth and death dates found on the gravestones in French Cove, Flaherty’s pieces depict antlers, bone and shards of pottery intertwined with motifs of miniature landscapes.

1887–1954 by Michael Flaherty

Janice Hudson

East Coast Living