Tethered By Process, 2025

Tethered By Process is a series of clay vessels that visually indicate the process through which they were created. This series plays on ideas surrounding the positionality of ceramics among other art forms and where clay objects fall within hierarchies of value.

Every vessel in this series is made using coiling techniques, revealing and celebrating intricacies and subtleties on the clay’s surface. The variation of black and white clay allows for each layer to be seen, as if looking underneath the flesh of the final piece. Without glaze, the raw clay brings attention to the form, and provides the viewer with a deeper understanding of the process.

The larger vessels are tethered together by needle felted chains. This combination of felt and clay explores the idea of connection, highlights the contrast of textures, and brings attention to our evolving understanding of craft. The colourful chains take a common symbol which is often interpreted as rigid and constraining, but subvert expectations through the use of a soft material. The vessels are not bound together by force, but naturally acquainted through the hands that built them.

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