Ceramic practice

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My ceramics practice has been established for three years. Greatly informed by my wider enquiry into the materiality of clay relating to the built environment. Surfaces imitate the materials of the urban space. 

For me ceramics represents the meeting place between drawing and sculpture. A place where the line can occupy a depth. An alternative trace can occur in three dimensions. Currently I am excited as stamped impressions continue through to leave a bulge. Leaving the negative and positive action very evident. The hand imitating the hand made on a larger scale of architecture.

 

Hong Kong >

What is starkly obvious in Hong Kong, and asia as a whole, is of a place under construction. But especially with such little spare building space Hong Kong seems in a near constant state of redevelopment. Walking the streets you are enveloped by the energy of a place being rebuilt. Negative spaces are first hollowed out in one way or arother, underground more often. The ground under churns over time to leave you unsure that anything is true to its original rock. 

In this envirnment architectire begins to make sense as a binary concept. Either fully consuming a space, or as a void, anticipating the next. The provisional licence, as function and commerciality recede. 

Shops go from functioning businesses to striped out concrete shells as quickly as a few days and rise again, to be fitted out in another form. To my foreign eyes the commercial and logistic forces which make this a reality are a mystery. The only fathomable anchor point are the labourers who make these physical changes. The effort and efficiency are a spectactle, but somehow in the minds eye do not equate to the scale that surrounds. 

Hong Kong resonates as a place with an accelerated character. one where buildings are very much used as tools. existing until the value of the void they occupy outweighs their value as an asset.  

Objects seen here are all for sale in my online shop

(posted within the UK/Internationally ?)

I like to make in smaller ceramic forms work which is exciting, reflectiving my idea for a material condition or potential. Purely creative starting points to lead to realised forms with a place to be in the world. 

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