In my practice I hand build sculptures with the method coiling. I choose to expose the coil, therefore to expose the process that is often hidden in most ceramic work. I champion this process and celebrate the history of craft and ceramics. I find inspiraring the first primitive objects made out of clay from the  'Jomon' period in Japan and my approach to making is influenced by the Bauhaus.


I use the coil as a drawing method, by analogy to how draughtsmen use a pencil. I like to think that I am ‘taking a coil for a walk’, an expression I borrow from Paul Klee’s expression: ‘drawing is taking a line for a walk’. When I am making a piece of work, I know where I want to start and have a notional idea of how I may want it to look like. Frequently the work takes me on a material and narrative journey and as I progress I make decisions to shape the final form different to the one I had in mind. I let the form be, and I let serendipity happen in the search for a new structural complexity.


In a world that is becoming digitalised, I have created a relationship with clay where my hands act like an analogue 3D printer and as a result my sculptures echoes the aesthetic of this technology.


2019

Group Picture
'Toes in the shore', Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze, 158(H)x45(W)x45(W)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
 'Toes in the shore', Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze, 158(H)x45(W)x45(W)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'A Convoluted Journey', Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe,155(H)x76(W)x40(D)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Very Brighton', Ceramics, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe.143(H)x60(W)x55(D)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'A Convoluted Journey', Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe,155(H)x76(W)x40(D)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Very Brighton', Ceramics, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe.143(H)x60(W)x55(D)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'A Convoluted Journey', Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe,155(H)x76(W)x40(D)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Very Brighton', Ceramics, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe.143(H)x60(W)x55(D)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
Group Picture
'Exposed', Ceramics, Engobe, 52(H)x40(W)x18(D)cm, 2019. Phography by Jonathan Bassett.
'One legged journey', Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Not from The Aberdeen Bestiary', 40(H)x47(D)x25(W)cm, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Exposed', Ceramics, Engobe, 52(H)x40(W)x18(D)cm, 2019. Phography by Jonathan Bassett.
'One legged journey', Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Not from The Aberdeen Bestiary', 40(H)x47(D)x25(W)cm, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
 'Swelter', 35(H)x17(W)x15(D)cm, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.

            2018

'Foreing Growth', Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 43(H)x23(W)x15(D)cm, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Exposed', Ceramics, Engobe, 52(H)x40(W)x18(D)cm, 2019. Phography by Jonathan Bassett.
'One legged journey', Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze & Engobe, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
 'Not from The Aberdeen Bestiary', 40(H)x47(D)x25(W)cm, Ceramic, Glaze & Engobe, 2019. Photography by Jonathan Bassett.
'Sunrise', Stoneware, 2018, 60(W)x40(H)x3(D). Photography by Tania Dolvers
'Sunset', Stoneware, 2018. 26(H)x25(W)x54(D).

            2017

2017 RCA Degree Show   Photography by Tania Dolvers
Antropomórfico, Ceramics, Stoneware, 120cm(H)x55cm(w)x46cm(D), 2017. Photography by Malcolm Smith.
zoomorfo
Coiled Form 1
Foreign Growth 1
Accident
Underwater
Bictoria
Antropomórfico, Ceramics, Stoneware, 120cm(H)x55cm(w)x46cm(D), 2017. Photography by Malcolm Smith.
Survivor
Coiled Form 2
Foreign Growth 2
Rareness


            2017

Obscure Openings
Breathout
'Soñar', ceramics, stoneware, 38(w)x38(D)x68(H)cm, 2017. Photography by Malcolm Smith.
Survivor
Coiled Form 3
Foreign Growth 3
Desconocido
Primitive
Foreign Growth