Anticipation

FLUX Review of Curious Minds Exhibition, 2023

These dancing feet are made in ceramic stoneware and decorated in a pale blue Celadon glaze.  A leather thong laces up one of the dance shoes suggesting that her physical body is laced into her ballet practice. The muscular toes evidence to the hours of practice it has taken to get to this point.

Anticipation, 2018 is a very personal work made by a mother for her daughter just before she goes out into the world; her feet identifying the path she hopes to take.  The young woman’s feet become her dancing shoes; one foot poised as if to take off to dance into the unknown. The feet rest on a Welsh slate base. Anticipation is in the FLUX Review 2023 and won  the Annual Ceramic Prize at the Victoria & Albert/Morley Gallery exhibition in 2018.  

 

FLUX Review Curious Minds front cover, 2023

 

 

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Braintree – Sick of data, 2023

Braintree – Sick of data comments on recent explorations, by a tech mogul, into neural interface technologies that fit chips and electrodes into peoples’ brains. In this work four ceramic brains hang from the tree, one spewing out a stream of paper data. A single human head with a disc inserted looks up at them in wonder and fear.

So far it is just apes that have been used in these earlier stages of development. Three sad monkeys. modern versions of Hear no evil, Speak no evil, See no evil sit under glass domes as part of this experiment.

Braintree sculpture - Sick of data Braintree data stream head detail

Braintree - Sick of data with three apes

 

Captive, 2016

Captive ape

The captive ape sits in his glass box for the world to see. A comment on how we look at each other all the time maybe?

East v. West, 2016

East meets West

East versus West: Chairman Mao as a paperweight and the sad lion of the West meet up.

Small people cast a long shadow, 2022

Small people cast a long shadow

 

Small people cast a long shadow translates in to Welsh as Pobl Bach yn taffy cysgod hir. 

Resting on a Welsh slate base these six figures tell their own stories including the naughty boy, the cheeky uncle in his string vest and a very thoughtful figure in the back row with the splendid, coloured hair. Why might these small people cast a long shadow?

Hands proverbial

Series of ceramics depicting ancient Welsh proverbs.

 

 

HIV, 2017

Exhibited in picture form in the Science Futures tent at Glastonbury  2020 the HIV sculpture re-images the virus as a bunch of macabre flowers. The work forms part of the installation series Significant Bunch of viruses.

 

HIV Flowers

Truth is of one colour, 2022

Truth is of one colour

Truth is of one colour, 2022

A celebration in clay of the Black Lives Matter movement, its connection to the zeitgeist  and the right to protest.

OUTBREAK Games, 2017

OUTBREAK Games introduces viruses and bacteria, and their exciting microbial forms, through  a series of familiar games. Brightly coloured Pop Art pieces look as delicate as coral, but a dangerous as sea mines. These exciting works have become all the more relevant in recent times as we fear the antibiotics can no longer help and our recent experience of the Pandemic. This Virus v Bacteria animation can be shown alongside an OUTBREAK Games exhibition  Audiences invited to pay these ceramic microbial games. and help white blood cells fight infection.

 

OUTBREAK Draughts

Out daily battle with viruses are represented in a humorous way on this large, colourful draughts board. See the red and white blood cells win the day over the Common Cold, Giardia Sickness bug, HPV and the Coronavirus which causes Covid 19. Watch the game in action

OUTBREAK Draughts

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OUTBREAK Bar Billiards

A reclaimed bar billiards board is re-imagined.  A host of microbes are in play.

OUTBREAK Bar Billiards

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OUTBREAK Jacks

Remember playing this in the school playground? Maybe not with bacterial spores and ceramic dice.

OUTBREAK Jacks

 

OUTBREAK Chess

Each conventional chess piece is represented by HIV & AIDS,T.B., Flu, DNA replicants and red and white blood cells,  Help them  jostle for position on the huge chess board.

OUYTBREAK Chess

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TERRA FIRMA - waving hands

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