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.  

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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.

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.

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.