Teabowls (2023)
A series of teabowls thrown during a course at MAC Birmingham, finished with different coloured clay slips. Thrown in multiple forms, the bowls were made to explore different shapes, with each brush stroke intentionally applied to mimic a different seasonal quality.
Made as part of a six-week workshop at Modern Clay with white and blue marbled stoneware body left over from a workshop. The pot was left exposed to the studio’s climate to become leather hard, then pressure was applied to the walls to create impressed stress cracks.
Bisque-fired, then coated with iron oxide and manganese oxide.
Fired in an electric kiln.
Earth Urn Ash Urn Ash (2022)
Conceived after two human-caused fires in Lickey Hills, Birmingham and Kinver Edge, Stourbridge. Bisque-fired ceramic awaiting a forest fire. To be fired again with ashes collected from a forest fire. To be used as a receptacle to hold the ashes of future forest fires. Sat atop a wood wool board and a blend of straw and Etruria Marl clay.
Installation view - Necrology, Haarlem Artspace, Derby, UK. (2025)
Installed with forest fire debris gathered from Kinver Edge, South Staffordshire.
Project mentors and workshop practitioners
Phil Root & Lyde Green Pottery
Lyde Green Pottery will be hosting a wood fired kiln building workshop that I will attend along with visual artist Phil Root, who is innovatively experimenting with found clays from construction sites and clays local to him in Bristol.
Rescued Clay, Prashant Patel and Giovanni Agostini
Rescued Clay will be a wonderful place to learn more about throwing pots with Giovanni Agostini as well as experiment with local clays from construction sites with Prashant Patel. Part of Rescued Clay’s mission is rigorous testing of clays from multiple sites to develop them into usable materials, this will be critical in assisting me in my clay experiments in my own local research.
Laurie Ramsell & Sarah Taylor Silverwood
Laurie Ramsell is a Birmingham based arists and will be a key mentor in material experimentation. After having worked with Laurie on a bio based project, BAB Lab in 2022 I will be mentored by Laurie in using biomaterials and the qualities of clay.
Sarah Taylor Silverwood is another Birmingham based artist who is a proficient slip caster and mold maker. She will be teaching me in various slip casting techniques as well as developing visual styles through slipware.