I have always been fascinated with the human shape, using my art as a way of deciphering our internal lives from our physical movements and postures. You can see some of my figurative work here.

Almost by accident I was given the opportunity to explore ceramics, and the abstract quality of vessel forms has proved an excellent vehicle for exploring human relationships. How we exist with and against each other, the balance, the distortion, the weight of each other, are all there to be captured in clay. 

There has been an element missing though. No relationship exists outside of society, and all the tensions and contradictions of our unequal world are played out in our lives. How could I create a route from our wider environment to our lived relationships in my work? In the end it has been the unrelenting, paralysing horror of Gaza, and a growing sense of all society becoming unstuck, which is leading me to hurl concrete, steel and plinths into the works. 

The organic quality to my work has never been a conscious decision. It has evolved from the nature of the material. I hope it does give an underlying reminder of how fragile, how soft and brittle we are.

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