How raw materials morph into consumer objects

ARTIST Delia Prvacki's hometown in northern Transylvania was surrounded by mines, and she grew up listening to stories and myths about the landscape and observing the heritage related to the mountains that were rich in gold and other metals.

It gave her a deeper understanding and attachment to the natural elements and how they are transformed. "I'm fascinated and obsessed with the idea of exploration, transformation, metamorphosis 'suffered' by raw materials in order to become a work of art," she shares.

From the time she studied ceramics in university, she became aware of metals as a source of colours for her ceramic work. Her attachment to the chromatic effects achieved through firing deepened after coming to Singapore 25 years ago. "That was a turning point when I started to approach my ceramic practice and artistic medium as a synthesis of form and colour," explains the 67-year-old who came to Singapore in 1991 with her husband, Milenko Prvacki, and settled here.