Caroline Chouler-Tissier

Fragile Presence series

Extruded and slip cast porcelain and volcanic clay

22 x 20cm

Developing concept-led experimental and sculptural processes during RCA 20-22, involved research of anthropological archive material and draws deeply on personal experiences of processing trauma and a growing understanding of grief.

Fragile Presence is an experimental approach to the extrusion process and slip cast method to explore the breadth of clay as a material. Carefully selected clays with contrasting properties are pressed through disrupting hand-cut extrusion plates and combined with a slip casting process in an exploration of the precise and the disruptive. Surface treatment of this work embraces areas of semi-reflective, metallic glazes as a metaphor for resilience and self-reflection

£1,475