Carin Dorrington
Ceramic artist Carin Dorrington creates colourful, fantastical, and magical artwork using glazed stoneware and acrylic. These narrative and playful works are similar to her utilitarian ceramic practice, but brought into the world of sculpture through a creative conversation between form and colour. The totem is historically a sacred and spiritual representative object that relates to specific groups and their belief systems, worship, ancestors and identities. Dorrington’s totem series represents contemporary artefacts of worship from the current episteme, our new affinities with the digital, emojis, pop culture, and other playful things that make it into human metaphors for daily existence in the twenty-first century. Her work was exhibited at DAOR Contemporary in 2022 as a part of the show play play alongside artists Katja Abbott and JP Meyer.
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Emoji garden, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 163 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Emoji garden, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 163 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Monochrome man with yellow wings on a blue chair, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 165 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Monochrome man with yellow wings on a blue chair, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 165 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Colour Block, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 152 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Colour Block, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 152 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Friendly yellow devil, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 162 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Friendly yellow devil, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 162 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Cheery-Gloomy, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 160 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Cheery-Gloomy, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 160 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: The Happy Hamburger, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 165 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: The Happy Hamburger, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 165 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: The Pink Devil, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 153 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: The Pink Devil, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 153 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Fish Lips and the Clown, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 159 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Fish Lips and the Clown, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 159 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Spotty pig, the eye, the pink bun, and a little blue devil, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 160 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Spotty pig, the eye, the pink bun, and a little blue devil, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 160 cm
Carin Dorrington, Totems Series: Spotty pig, the eye, the pink bun, and a little blue devil, Glazed stoneware & Acrylics, 2022, 160 cm
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: White, Green lines, red dots, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Blue blocks & dots, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Pink, blue lines and red dots, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Multicolour with black and pink blocks, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Black & White, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Black lines and colour blocks, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Rainbow lines and colour, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Orange, red, yellow, and black & white blocks, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Blue Grid, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Multicolour Abstract II, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Multicolour Abstract I, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Black and Yellow, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, Wall Vase Series: Yellow with multicolour dots, Glazed Stoneware, 2022
Carin Dorrington, It must be Spring I, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Carin Dorrington, It must be Spring II, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Carin Dorrington, It must be Spring III, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Carin Dorrington, A New Perspective, Acrylic on canvas, 2022, 111 x 111 cm
Carin Dorrington, The Reunion Photo, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 121 x 151 cm
Carin Dorrington, Head Over Heels, Acrylic on Canvas, 2022, 111 x 111 cm
Carin Dorrington, Cinque Terre, Acrylic on Canvas, 2022, 111 x 111 cm
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Carin Dorrington, Blue Flowers, yellow sunshine, 2023, Stoneware, 32 x 10 x 27 cm
Carin Dorrington, Clouds and Rainbows, 2023, Stoneware, 29 x 13 x 30 cm
Carin Dorrington, Rainbow Flower, 2023, Stoneware, 33 x 12 x 33 cm
Carin Dorrington, Poor Man’s Opera: Super man, 2023, Stoneware, Glaze, Acrylics, Sealant, Steel frame, 120 x 40 x 20 cm
Carin Dorrington, Poor Man’s Opera: Red Shoe Diary, 2023, Stoneware, Glaze, Acrylics, Sealant, Steel frame, 160 x 40 x 20 cm
Carin Dorrington, Poor Man’s Opera: Lightning bolt, 2023, Stoneware, Glaze, Acrylics, Sealant, Steel frame, 124 x 40 x 20 cm
Carin Dorrington, Poor Man’s Opera, 2023, Stoneware, Glaze, Acrylics, Sealant, Steel frame
Carin Dorrington was born in 1963 in the Paarl, Western Cape. She completed her BA Fine Art (Hon(s)) HED degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 1985. Thereafter, she became an art teacher at the Jack Meyer Art Centre in Paarl until 1993. After 1993 she married and moved to Porterville, Western Cape where she taught art privately for 15 years. Currently Dorrington works on slab built, high fired stoneware objects. They have an emphasis on bold colour application and geometric shapes.