A Hụrụ M Gị N’Anya (I Love You)

Underglaze and acrylic paint on porcelain Height: 59.05″ (150 cm) Unique ABOUT THE ARTWORK Amanda Offor’s monumental porcelain vessels explore grief, memory, loss and the preservation of familial histories. Working between London and Jingdezhen, Offor uses the ceramic vessel as a vehicle through which personal memory and cultural histories can be reconstructed and preserved. These works draw on the influence of Hunping funerary soul urns from the Han Dynasty, while incorporating visual motifs associated with the blue-and-white wares of the Dutch East India Company. Offor deliberately brings these different cultural references together on a form whose identity has historically existed as a vessel for death and remembrance. In doing so, the urns become contemporary memorial objects—created to immortalise the essence of family members and loved ones while offering beauty as a way of approaching death. A Hụrụ M Gi N’anya (I Love You) extends the idea through imagery of swans, traditionally associated with love and devotion; hand-sculpted porcelain birds encircling the vessel represent the spirit of the deceased ascending towards the heavenly realm. Here, Offor transforms the funerary vessel into an intimate meditation on love, ancestry, remembrance and what remains after loss.