Ceramics

My work evolves through an exploration of medium and process but it is also informed by concepts of identity. I am particularly drawn to the idea of identity as fluid and provisional - shaped by culture, environment, landscape - changed by the journey. The work is characterised by my desire to push the plastic and textural possibilities of clay to an extreme, leading to a sense of flux - of assimilation and change. I often draw on the visual symbolism of sea and landscape - shifting sands and uncertain boundaries.

2D works are informed by notions of perspective, territory, mapping and topography. Scale and perspective are largely ambiguous so there is a search for points of reference in the familiar.

 3D vessels are often boat like in nature, although they have no clear means of steerage or propulsion. Their edges may allude to horizons or boundary fences. Like the wall mounted pieces they may contain words or phrases taken from my passport and applied like wax letter seals. The structure suggests a makeshift assemblage - stitched together with flotsam and remnants from other histories, eroded and patched, imprinted and encoded, full of references - but remaining empty.

Ultimately I am hoping to express a fragile containment of self in vessels of exploration…....... “Good For Single Journey.”

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