Collection (with flowers)
These porcelain pots were made in an attempt to replicate a series of drawings into three-dimensional objects. The original drawings were made in notebooks over a number of years with the jotting down of the shapes and forms of pots and vases I observed in museums. The raw clay body porcelain has its own volition and so these clay forms sometimes take an unpredictable path, a bit like a line drawn with ink and brush on a page.
At Burmarsh the pots have another job to fulfil, following the tradition of arranging flowers in churches. The uneven nature of these vessels creates a rather informal floral display and will be changed each week by the rota of artists and invigilators taking part in the exhibition. This ritual of decoration contrasts the hand-made and the manufactured with the natural world and in this parallels the place of these churches, built and maintained by their congregations, in the wildness of the marshes.
