ABOUT
Biography
I grew up in Kent, writing stories, making things out of any materials I could find, and reading about ancient cultures and languages, until my interest in archaic clay tablets led me to clay and then to the decision to abandon my plans and instead pursue ceramics full time. During my Ceramics and Glass BA (Hons) at the University for the Creative Arts, I fell in love with the materiality of clay and the potential of ceramics as a medium for exploring my academic interests, leading to a creative practice grounded in research and conceptual questioning.
Artist Statement
Bringing together material exploration and a fascination with museums, archaeology, and the prehistoric, my work examines our relationship to ancient artefacts and history and questions the boundaries between truth, authority, and interpretation.
I work with clay in an experimental and generative way, transforming standard stoneware clay through the randomised addition of additives like fluxes, oxides, and organic materials. This approach allows the material itself to be an active agent in the creation of my work, enabling me to work beyond the limitations of my own ideas.
Treating the conventions of archaeology and museology as an artistic medium, my ceramic pieces (imaginary ‘artefacts’) form the basis of the Other Earth, a rich and creative alternate world that I explore through the creation of museum-style displays. These exhibits combine my ‘artefacts’ with fictional labels, fabricated archive materials, and invented archaeological illustrations to construct detailed and complex stories that explore the imaginary history of the Other Earth Collection and its world.
