LAND/CLAY/EARTH
2023

The natural environment within Britain is owned, divided up, farmed, and harvested.

This body of work explores the theatre and ritual of crafts and cob building history due to the collaborative and instinctive nature of this making. Cob building is organic, primitive, and labour intensive.



A handmade hessian stage is used in the work to witness and record the physical, mucky, interaction between materials.

Power is given to the act of making; replicating the use of traditional earth building techniques, the clay holds remnants of my fingerprints and forceful imprints of fabric.

Manipulating natural materials into precious objects - Through this process I explore the dialogue between functional and ornate ceramics, along with references to embellishment and kitsch display. The patchwork of decorative elements is curated alongside naturalistic, earth-based construction techniques.