assembly

A collage aesthetic has always informed my working practice. It starts with a search for material to work with. The Thames foreshore has recently provided a rich source of material for photographic and three dimensional work. I mainly pick up ceramic sherds and photographing the day’s harvest of finds can itself provide unexpected juxtapositions of form colour . All the finds are partial objects, fragments that, seen alongside other fragments, form new connections. I keep most of my finds as separate objects that can be constantly re arranged to find new relations and meanings . However I stack some of the foreshore finds in a kiln and re-fire them using glaze to fuse them together. This fixes the fragments into a new whole.

Two kiln-fused ceramic pieces using Thames foreshore finds 2019 and 2018

Pipkin feet and nails. 2020

Thames finds with holes. A curation of found objects for 2019 open studio.

Lockdown finds 2020

Mainly kiln fused ceramic work with exception of top shelf far-left and bottom shelf far-right that incorporate glass elements and cannot be re-fired

Studio experiments

Found flints from Kent and hand formed plaster

Open studio 2018- found objects and studio residue casts