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Change the world - rebuild it
in clay.


I work with clay because I find it a very responsive and constructive material. Some of the imagery I use is linked to masculine identity - guns, cars, machines. During my lifetime the expectations of what it means to be a man have changed and continue to do so. Changes inevitably make you question assumptions about your life and identity. I hope my best ideas express that questioning in 3 dimensions.

Work in progress



Current work in progress includes more on the 'boys toys' theme - an 'installation' / set of nine cars entitled 'Autobiography', and a quivering car-park. I am also working on an installation where ceramic objects are linked by threads. These projects are in various stages of development..



 
   

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War of the Worlds

[Above] Quivering Karpark, work in progress.
100 glazed earthenware 'car' forms, h30mm max.
Image copyright S.Fell

Subjective Objects
  Carafe, earthenware h20cm
   

My ceramic work is figurative and ideas based. I think there is a tendency in contemporary art to favour head centred concepts over ideas that come from the mind and body as a whole in that they involve both conceptual and manual skills. I work holistically - I hand make work which is full of ideas and allusions which I develop from a combination of my own subjective view of the world, my drive to make things and my understanding of what art is.

Breaking the Mould: New approaches to ceramics  
   
Mould Breaking

Black Dog publishing have featured some of my work in a book: 'Breaking the Mould:New Approaches to Ceramics'. The book features 60 makers & artists whose work 'is taking the medium forward into exciting new territory, blurring the boundaries between craft, design and fine art.'

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