Path and Inspiration
I enjoy the onerous work of recycling stoneware, struggle with the limpness of porcelain and the uncertain complexities of glaze. Whether inspired by the wild and open or the urban, I subvert the human drive to drill and in-fill, to discard and construct, turning over the earth’s surface to make sculptures and objects that are conundrums that demand to be handled and re-positioned.Process and Practice
I create slumped landscapes by manipulating slab-rolled expanses of mixed clays, painted with slips or imprinted with angular markings and natural residues. I shape these over paper mache formers which I distort and foam lagging. By contrast, I also work by forcefully, penetrating solid clay masses with timber, to leave angular voids suggestive of excavation and exploitation. The two methods converge when I fuse the thin, bisqued slumped forms into the still wet solid sculpted forms.
