About

I am a visual artist who uses ceramic processes to explore the material limits of sculpture, functionality and form. I like to invert the techniques of traditional craft pottery to make something which enquires into it's own making. I work with foraged and industrial materials such as dug clay, wood ash as well as quarried clay and the brick form from local industry. Coming from a fine art background, materials were always used as a way of positioning an idea, but nowadays I let them position me.

I work from my studio at Spike Island, Bristol as well as firing my work at Lyde Green Pottery, an educational wood fired kiln site in North Bristol that I founded in 2021 and regularly run workshops on local clay and glaze development as well as lecturering in Ceramics and Fine Art at the Bristol School of Art.

In 2018 I co-founded Caraboo Projects, an organisation producing exhibitions, workshops & residencies which support artists’ professional development in the South West.

Before moving to Bristol, I was resident at Wysing Arts Centre, where I spent time renovating the ceramics studio. This studio has since become a spring board for many contemporary artists wishing to explore the medium as well as the place where I co-founded The Grantchester Pottery a project navigating the boundaries between art, craft and authroship.