'Uncaged'

This body of work is an exploration into trickery, imagination and the world of traps and trapping. I wanted to encourage the viewer to inspect closer to investigate the material.

Through an amalgamation of techniques and processes, I have produced a collection of ceramic cages. By extensive experimentation, I have developed a process by which I am able to control the natural tendency of the clay to sag. I can exploit this element of distortion to my advantage.

Extruded clay, which has been carefully layered, creates a caged canopy over porcelain and metal inlayed bases. In areas, the fragile strands of the cages have been replaced with handmade silver chains to show a sense of preciousness reflecting the subject of the original source books.