ceramics
Through my work, I invite viewers to contemplate the duality of strength and vulnerability inherent in both the vessel and the self. These vessels are vessels of stories—bearing witness to lives lived, identities forged, and histories rewritten.
Vessel Series
An exploration of the vessel form from conception through to abstraction.
Metamorphosis
This series of works explores the haptic, where pinched forms, imprinted with my own fingerprints, become vessels for the narrative of womanhood, resilience and transformation. The process is both intuitive and considered; every piece is forged by hand, my hands, that show premature signs of ageing through psoriatic arthritis.
I invite viewers to contemplate the duality of strength and vulnerability inherent in both the vessel and the self. These vessels tell stories, bearing witness to lives lived, identities forged, and histories rewritten. Women's hands have created the artefacts that tell the story of history. Centring domestic materials and 'craft' processes offers a way to connect with the generations of women who were relegated to the domestic and devalued, despite the innate value in the objects they created. My exploration of vessel goes beyond the confines of their physicality; it's an excavation of memory, of societal perceptions, and of the fault lines that shape us.
