MY PRACTICE
As a maker, I use craft techniques to produce tableware objects influenced by locations and places. Malleability of clay and natural flow of slip, enable me to capture the atmosphere a site transmits to me, while highlighting lines, curves, earthy colours and trapping materials belonging to the location. Throughout my collections, decorative elements dominate over function, creating individuality whilst undertaking both handmade and industrial processes. Aesthetics, material delicacy and handmade elements place my work within the higher trade fields, while narrative aspects, allow it to be exhibited as a range, in relation to specific geographies.
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Process and materials are of equal importance within my work: when combined, they compliment each other, creating surface features recalling the place I am inspired by.
Initial research introduces me to historical and cultural background of the location, where tradition and attributes create the forms I design, make, cast, slip cast and glaze.
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Initial stages are also utilised to begin to understand material responses to high firing temperatures. Testing is fundamental in identifying geological reactions mixed to different clays and slips, as they constantly inform my work during firings and glazing procedures.
The processes required throughout the resolution of an object are based on plaster, slip casting and glazing techniques.
Plaster multi part moulds are used to experiment unconventional slip casting, aimed at recalling features from the locations I work with, whilst addition of pertinent found materials is resolved both during and after slip casting.

Unpredictability of materials involved throughout testing and resolution, feed my practice on a daily basis, where making builds upon skill and mistakes are treated as understanding.