These ceramic candle snuffers by Ciara Veronica Dunne are handmade in the shape of the Orkney Venus, also known as the Westray Wife, a neolithic figurine found in Orkney in 2009. Each one is unique and one-of-a-kind, decorated in the sgraffito technique with pictish symbols and ogham runes.
Ciara Veronica Dunne is a visual artist from Ireland who has been living in Edinburgh since 2011. She makes functional and ceremonial handmade Art objects. Her illustrated ceramic style is informed by Magic Realism, cultural syncretism, Surrealism and folklore as anthropology.
