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There is a particular quality of silence in an empty room, especially a family home when the door slams loudly and voices dissipate along the street. It is as if the air exhales, released from its constant disruption, constant churning by children running up the stairs and through doorways. For a moment, it is given reprieve to settle into the spaces left behind.

Material Presence 2018

May 2019

Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'

May 2019

Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'

Ceramics in Conversation

...at the same time, a relational turn was taking place, fuelled by a systemic interest in the nature of creativity. This shift was timely in regard global events, from the refugee Crisis in 2016 to growing awareness of ecological responsibilities and practice begins to pull all areas of concern together: creative thinking, clay, and ethnographic study...

Small Talk: Conversations
in Clay

‘Small Talk’ examines the sociality of clay on a nuanced level, by applying approaches commonly used in the practice of Oral History, to devise model of co-construction that can sensitize those involved to the nature of human interaction, and act as a register of the ‘smaller stories’ in the details of shared experiences.

Collaboration with Kim Norton and Sam Lucas

The beginnings of taking 'Flightlines' into clay

Flightlines:
Conversations
about
Life with Clay

an approach that moves beyond the focus of the studio, in accounting for creativity that includes the entanglement of multiple, interconnected demands such as those of family, social / community, or wider global/ecological events.

NCECA / ICF / COCA