EVENTUALLY EVERYTHING CONNECTS
I utilize a variety of techniques in my ceramic process, from coiling and slab building to altering wheel thrown pieces. Hand-made markings are a distinct flavour of my work, so is the use of opposing expressions: down to earth versus straight urban – maybe an interesting consequence of my European birth and chosen life in South Africa.
My work is and always has been an experimentation with materials and mixing media. The combination of clay with leather seemed so unlikely that it had to be attempted: “eventually everything connects” was born right there.
What are the possibilities of a decorative vessel once it had been separated, cut and cracked? When becomes a pot a sculpture, an object with its own story to tell? The challenge of “binding” different clays came first, the pressing technical question of how to combine clays with different firing shrinkage had to be solved, ultimately, stitching them together made complete sense.
Ripples diverged from here: life is a series of stitching it together, ripping it apart, finding cracks… That elusive perfect vessel that dissolved in an exploration of unusual shapes and colour selections, spiced with a good dose of joy and play.
“cut the noise”,
approx. diameter 37cm,
naked black stoneware, glazed white earthenware, red engobe on inside, stitched with brown leather.
“wanna be my yellow“
33 x 8 x 30cm, porcelain, leather, chalk & spray paint
”india”, light earthenware, faux leather, glazed
“my other moon
25 x 6 x 25cm, red earthenware, glaze, leather
“blue today – pink tomorrow“, approx. 25 x 30cm
red earthenware, glaze, leather
