To accompany the ‘Harry the Hare’ Easter Trail in partnership with Liverpool BID Company, our window on College Lane features a special selling display of Emma Rodgers’ ceramic hares between 22 March – 5 April 2024.
Emma has always been inspired by nature, especially the dynamic movements of hares and rabbits.
Her ceramic rabbit was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and won the Contemporary prize 1996. She has continued to regularly feature hares in her work and her understanding of the shape of animals and how they move comes from her close observations. Emma has kept rabbits and even fostered a hare alongside a sheep and a fox!
Amongst her many public commissions and international collections, Emma is responsible for the statue of Cilla Black in Matthew Street as well as the world’s largest Liver Bird fabricated from Meccano style pieces which is located on Edge Lane’s retail park. Her work is also in the permanent collection of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Writing about her work, the critic David Whiting has commented that Rodgers is, “…now recognised as one of Britain’s leading ceramic sculptors…”, adding that her animal and human figures have, “…a heightened sense of movement or tension, absorbed in the trials and dramas of existence.”