Remember when, during the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone got into little hobbies like baking sourdough or gardening? Well, for gothic punk icon Nick Cave, his Covid escape was, as it turns out, hand-crafted Staffordshire-style ceramic sculptures.

Yes, as strange as it may seem — or may not seem, if you’re up to date with his vibe on the British royal family — Cave has a genuine, “not ironic” passion for making the Victorian Era figurines, and has refined the practice into quite the art form. In 2022, he unveiled a 17-piece series titled “The Devil — A Life,” which is now on display at the Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Netherlands.

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Speaking about his newfound work as a ceramist in an interview with The Art Newspaper, Cave explained that it came about as “a kind of yearning I had to get back to some sort of visual...