RESONANCE OF PLACE

Artefact from Glandford Shell Museum, North Norfolk.

Note reads: “Rocks bored by rock borers (prob. Hiatella) one also with fossil shell

impression”

The techniques I use are not only a means to make the work but have become heavily tied to the conceptual side of my practice. Processes such as water erosion and sandblasting, have a direct connection to natural processes associated with the landscapes and places that inform specific works. For example, the holes made in stone by rock borers. This sample was found on the same bit of North Norfolk coastline that I reminisce upon during the creation of these works. The quality of the edges of the rock and the holes formed through its surface have both influenced decisions made when working upon my own objects.

Over Foam-Flecked Waves and Pierced by Light - Stained Stonewear - H17cm W17cm D10cm

from the Horton Bluff Formation (Mississipian), near Avonport,

Nova Scotia’

This artefact is not one with a significance to place for me, but rather an amazement at the distilling and preservation of something as ephemeral as the weather.

When considering links between my process and concepts, I have been drawn back to looking at this fossil, like clay it preserves a moment in time, a moment of interaction. The formation of relief surfaces in my works start to share qualities of the fossil; surface and form becoming intertwined through this process that mimics natural weathering, revealing once flat marks and moments of touch to also be part of the body of an object.

Stiffkey Marshes, North Norfolk Washed Grey With Dawn - 2020 - Stained Porcelain - H11cm W13cm D1.5cm