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Appropriated Ceramics
2012-2013
These are the first ceramics that I worked with, there is a high failure rate when refiring antique ceramics – you loose more than half in the kiln
These ceramic pieces are mostly vintage Victorian porcelain, which has been modified by the addition of hand printed ceramic decals, they have then been fired to make the additions permanent and the pieces usable. In these pieces the industrial and the domestic collide. I hope that the work raises questions about the provenance of objects and the cost of our obsession with newness
Custom decals on white commercial ceramics
2013-2015
These pieces were made on on commercially produced ware using mainly hand screenprinted decals, the ware was mainly sourced from factories near Limoges.
Cast Ceramics
2014-2017
With these pieces I started to create vessels by pouring clay slip into plaster moulds. Pieces were cast in in porcelain using moulds from old bottles and modern packaging. I also started to use underglaze colours with decals applied on top of them.
Bristol Bidons - Porcelain vases based on cycling bottles celebrating cycling and living in Bristol
The bottles come in different colour/ designs linked to iconic cycling jerseys.
Yellow: Tour de France leader
Polka Dot: Tour de France king of the mountains
Pink: Giro Italia leader
Red: Vuelta Espania leader
They also come in white porcelain and Bristol blue
The bottles feature rainbow stripes linking to the word champions jersey and to the championing of diversity and peace.
The front of the bottles include information on the population and lattitude + longitude of the city
The back of the bottles show symbols relating to the city
Bottles are approx 18cm high in Porcelain
Tour de France yellow Jersey Tour de France Polka dot Jersey Vuelta Red Jersey Giro pink jersey
Beakers and Vessels
2015-2019
These slipcast pieces were concerned with gaining control of colour and form and starting to use layering to build surface interest, street imagery such as road markings and barcodes combines and contrasts with more traditional floral forms of ceramic adornement
Pouring splattering and painting with slip
2018-
Realising that I could treat the inside of the mould as a blank canvas I started to splatter, pour and paint on the mould before filling it with slip, Once the vessel had been glazed a further layer of ceramic decals are added and fired onto the piece
