Jesse Wine

Jesse Wine’s sculptures are both introspective and autobiographical, while also addressing shared human experiences. Often figurative, his works take the form of heads, limbs, and bodily fragments, reflecting his interest in behaviour, communication, and the everyday. A sense of existential questioning runs through his practice, balanced with wit and playful surrealist humour.

Working primarily with clay, Wine creates forms that range from intimate ceramics to monumental bronzes. His sculptures combine familiar objects with fragmented bodies, blending abstraction with playfulness. He experiments with surfaces by mixing sand into pigments for light-absorbing finishes, or glazing ceramics to mimic the density of metal, turning material into a stage for shifting meaning and interpretation.

By emphasizing gesture and posture rather than the face, Wine highlights communication through form, where bodies hover between figuration and abstraction, and humour, memory, and psychological depth meet.