Working with ceramics for over ten years has allowed me to
develop a language that I consider is preserved in the layering of the making
process. I work a lot of the time with repetition and the direct involvement of
creating my amassments becomes an important translation to the work. I capture
traces of making in the work that purposefully locks in a separation from my
body through fingerprints and choreographed actions of movement. This in turn
gives the objects I make an inherited yearning to the body both by distant
trace and the behaviour of the symbolism presented.
Inherited
Absents (2016-17) is a piece that presents a collection of
numbered hand built porcelain wishbones. Each completely different and document
the change in making from different sittings of creation. I intend this body of
work to be ongoing and constantly renewed with the idealised destiny that each
wishbone is activated between two people. Dipped in wax offers both a visual
reading of the work to be more tactile, and in touch to offer a temporary feel
of comfort and safety. Presented in a vintage free standing bird cage to condition
the experience of looking at something kept and to be communicated with through
bars of proscribed habitat. Ideas for the work extrapolate from commentary on the
propaganda of climate change and how this has become a house hold terminology
that is controlled by the edited agendas of the leaders of the world. I want
the work to offer a very human centred involvement, a vehicle of connection and
a talisman for a meaningful wish.
