the ceramics in this installation were made on a residency in 2024, at Ogden Water Nature Reserve , Halifax, funded by Everybody Arts and Culturedale. I spent time immersed in the woodland around the reservoir, digging up wild clay , uncovering pathogenic rhizomorphs , exploring hidden, secret spaces and species. Three sets of ceramics came out of this woodland. The spine- a row of tiny, pinched wild clay pieces glazed with a speckled white crawl glaze resembling mould, dotted down a floating tree trunk. Hazard- yellow and black pinched clay pieces, zig-zag across the floor (previously overlaying the honey fungus, on the dead tree trunks ), immitating natures danger signs of wasps and bees. Also Roost, red and yellow, hand-squeezed pieces of wild clay with the fiery glaze, which recall the roosting Monarch butterflies, now an endangered species due to human intervention.
