My recent foray into clay

Wound Plate, (2019). earthenware under glaze and ceramic glaze (Private collection, Berlin, Germany).

My last, and very brief, foray into ceramics was in my first year at art school. I recently returned to the medium, partly to get new perspectives on the thematic concerns of my work, but predominantly to force myself out of a creative comfort zone. For me the tactile qualities of clay force a more visceral interaction with medium than the two dimensional image making of my general output.

I’m quite happy with the way this piece, tentatively titled ‘wound plate’, turned out – a direction I’m motivated to explore further as I venture into contemporary ceramic art.