About






Since the early 2000s, I’ve been working with ceramic materials.

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                       ecology has wormed its way into the gaps and material questions in my work. Tangling itself up with dynamic and generous words and ideas that explode the static character of our utility and noun obsessed language.

Questions around the carbon impact of ceramics, clay’s capity to communicate earthbound stories combined with a growing sense of loneliness around and disconnect from my plinth based work.

These shifts were a reponse to various growings
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            years ago I began to work with the clay in its raw state and photgraph it to capture that porelike/skinlike quality of its surface.

I also trained in horticulture -learning a little bit about soil science along the way

I set up a a community growing project with my friend Jude too.

This was in 2017

Together we explored the possibilities and limitations of traditional horticulture, the storytelling potential of ecological gardening, specifc to this city we grow in, and the offer of abundance and kinship to be found in the mosaic of spaces.

So after two decades of working with ceramic materials I untangled myself from glazing, then firing and in 2023 object making.

I’m still indebted to this lively,
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The title of my objects have outgrown the objects themselves

I find there is much more to say.

Anything  I do write invariabley leads me to the garden.  


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If you’’d like to know what my CV looks like I can tell you.

I can tell you about the galleries where my heads & faces were shown and sold

But I’d rather talk about plants and how to take action -creative or otherwise - on our doorsteps in these unsettling times.