Ceramics
23x14cm
Katie’s practice is rooted in the everyday, the familiar, and the human desire to capture, memorialise or impose order on life’s impermanence. Like with her earlier photographic practice, she uses ceramics as a tool in this pursuit, attempting to capture elements like light, shade, movement, memory and form, and transform them into lasting tactile objects. Her current work represents the futility of this desire and the uncanny, stilted, dreamlike or surreal images and forms that can result from our attempts to bring permanence to the impermanent.
Her handbuilt stoneware ceramics often include fragments of conversations, memories or feelings hand painted or carved onto raw surfaces. Botanical silhouettes and forms cut from slabs may adorn them, or be revealed using methods of glaze resist. Textured slabs and pinched clay act as a direct record of the artist’s hand and labour, and the firing process lends them a permanence far beyond most artistic mediums.
Ceramics
23x14cm
Katie’s practice is rooted in the everyday, the familiar, and the human desire to capture, memorialise or impose order on life’s impermanence. Like with her earlier photographic practice, she uses ceramics as a tool in this pursuit, attempting to capture elements like light, shade, movement, memory and form, and transform them into lasting tactile objects. Her current work represents the futility of this desire and the uncanny, stilted, dreamlike or surreal images and forms that can result from our attempts to bring permanence to the impermanent.
Her handbuilt stoneware ceramics often include fragments of conversations, memories or feelings hand painted or carved onto raw surfaces. Botanical silhouettes and forms cut from slabs may adorn them, or be revealed using methods of glaze resist. Textured slabs and pinched clay act as a direct record of the artist’s hand and labour, and the firing process lends them a permanence far beyond most artistic mediums.
