Digital Pots
Looking For the Edge
 
 
 
Sculptural Pot Archive

 

 

Horned bill        1996
 
Pair of guards    1998
 
School              1998
 

 

With these pots of a more sculptural nature I hope to explore the symbolic and metaphoric roots of pottery language. These pots deal with intellectual and visual content rather than utilitarianism. I have for many years, and still do make domestic ware pottery, but with these pots I aim to get away from our materialist habits and values of utility. For me a pot's intrinsic function is one of containment. In my work I use the pot as a metaphor for the human form, the human condition, or pot as container analogous to the human mind as container. The pot with its universal appeal and history becomes an object, possibly the subject within which I can explore and communicate this exploration.

Link to "Earthness" exhibition of 1999
Swallowtail
1996
Globe Series
1998
Rider
1996
   
Chameleon       1995
 
All at Sea          1995
 
Bird Pot            1994
   
Rhinoceros Pot  1993
 
Phantom Pot      1997
 
Bird Series         1994