Explore the Dreamlike Porcelain Art of Lana Filippone

This Toronto based artist sculpts in porcelain, drawing on the bizarre genre characterized by strange, dreamlike, or unsettling imagery that defies traditional conventions and reality.

A sculpture of a spider with a single eye, featuring a smooth, white body and elongated, delicate legs against a dark background. — From Instagram, here.

Filippone exhibits her work internationally and is a medalist with the Société Académique Arts Sciences Lettres, in Paris. She is featured in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, issue 52.

A decorative artwork featuring a white snake intertwined with leaves and berries, set within a gold-framed circular display. The background is dark, enhancing the contrast of the snake and foliage.

Habitually caught in a state of transience between the natural and the supernatural, the living and the dead, Lana’s sculptures are suffused with existential meanings . . . orchids and carnivorous plants, moths and bees, ghost pipes and ephemeral flames turn into moments captured forever in porcelain – from Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue 52, March 2026.

A ceramic sculpture depicting a mushroom with a golden cap and a white stem featuring a human-like eye, set against a red background with radiating golden lines.

Lana Filippone’s website, here.

Her Instagram, here.

To learn more about Bizarre art, have a look at the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize website, here.

A Personal Note:

I was captivated by the thinking behind Filippone’s “memorial” projects, to me an appealing way to remember the person who’s passed (much more logical than an urn of ashes sitting somewhere out of context). The image at the top of this post is the work from this Instagram post. Have a look.