“Museums are like temples, places of unity. Different cultural expressions coexist in a single place where time and space collide, inciting a journey to wholeness. They’ve captivated me ever since I was a child; their temple-like qualities and their embrace of the world, educating while honouring and sparking the imagination.”

Inspired by an ongoing project started in 2012, the Museum Spirituality Collection is composed of unique, in-glazed, fine bone china pieces. Provocative, hand-decorated plates and vessels bring meaningful transnational conversations onto our daily cultural practices.

In the collection, a Chinese Buddha converses with an Italian Madonna about love and parenthood, a Malian Bamana Ci-wara debates gender relations with a North Korean female military officer. An American Indian Hopi mask discusses war and carnality with an Assyrian defaced bronze head of a King and a French bronze angel.

Art, history, and culture are fused with the sensory experience of consumption, as serving plates and vessels are recognised as conduits between the outer world and our inside.

The Museum Spirituality Collection celebrates these essential and often overlooked places of exchange.