“Dark Cloud” is a hanging ceramic piece , constructed with around 400 black, glazed “fingerprints” : tiny pieces of clay that I have repeatedly pinched into distorted representations of the human mark. It was shown at The Fresh Air Sculpture Show, 2022. glazed stoneware ceramic, wireapprox 80 x 70 x 70 cmprice on request
“Squeezed” is a bunch of glazed ceramic forms, each has been created by squeezing clay aggressively in my fist, making a mark and capturing a level of emotion. Resembling a bunch of fruit , on closer inspection they look visceral , like intestines, the glazes slippery and pastel. installed at R.H.S. Harlow carr, Cannon Hall … Read more
Pernicious is a collection of 30 glazed ceramic pieces , installed in the ground using steel rods. Each piece is constructed with hundreds of “fingerprints”- vigorously squeezed pieces of clay. Varying sizes and complexity. Pernicious has been installed in R.H.S. Harlow Carr, Wentworth Castle Gardens and most recently at the Fresh Air Sculpture Show , … Read more
This body of ceramic work looks at the mark we make, our print , more than just a trace, and our relationship to the natural world, our environmental and psychological impact, using the intimate to reflect a global perspective. The red and black ceramic “fingerprint” work involves thousands of pieces of squeezed clay, each capturing a fingerprint, a 3D … Read more
glazed ceramic pieces installed on a tree “We Only Print in Blood Red” was a site specific sculptural piece, installed on a tree in Lytham ,as part of Counterpart. The piece explores the complex and often destructive relationship we have with the natural environment. Counterpart involved 12 artists work installed throughout Lytham. The piece is fired and … Read more
this is current work, digital sketches.I have been working with this tree,with its huge bump- it seems both a benign pregnant- like bulge, and a more sinister, tumorous growth. Some of these ideas may become “real”, real painted and manipulated barbed wire swarming out of the belly button type hole in the bulge, real latex … Read more