Nick Cave has confessed, which helped him reconcile with the tragic death of the son

Nick Cave, an Australian musician and composer in an interview with “The Art Newspapper” told about his passion for ceramic sculptures. The author of the exhibition “The Devil – A Life” admitted that This kind of art helped him understand his own feelings and allowed him to survive his son’s loss in his own way. “Ultimately, it turned out that it was a sense of guilt and forgiveness in connection with the death of my son. It was something that I could never reach in my writing songs. For me they became very personal” – explained the musician.

Nick Cave about working on sculptures. He created them for two years

It took Cave to create the entire collection of 17 ceramic figures about two years. The musician was completely absorbed in work on sculptures. “I got up every morning, I went to Camberwell in the morning (editor’s note of the London district) … Ultimately, it took about two years. My manager said: ‘What are you, k ***, do you do?’ I said: ‘I deal with ceramics’. It did not seem the most, from his point of view, a profitable way to spend two years. But anyway, I just let myself be kidnapped. “

Nick Cave started creating hand-painted figurines during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this way, he created a series of 17 ceramic sculptures in the Staffordshire style, which in 2022 was exhibited at the Finnish Art Gallery. Last year, the leader of the Bad Seeds group presented figurines at an individual exhibition at Galeria Xavier Hufkens in Brussels. Now the exhibits can be viewed at the Museum Voorlinden in Wasenaar, the Netherlands.

In 2015, as a result of a fall from a cliff in Brighton, UK, 15-year-old son Nick Cave, Arthur, died. After his death, the musician and his wife moved to Los Angeles. In 2022, the musician said goodbye to his second son, Jethro. We invite you to participate in the poll and commenting.