Recent Works

1. Bovey Basin Ball Clay Colour Spectrum — Mineralscape

Locating, processing and mapping the colour spectrum of historic ball clays.

This ongoing body of research investigates the historic ball clays of the Bovey Basin, tracing their colours and material characteristics back to the environments from which they originate. The work involves locating, collecting and processing clays from the disused Decoy Basin and the numerous former Bovey basins that have since become lakes.

Through direct engagement with these materials, the project explores the relationship between geological history, landscape and the physical properties of clay. It brings together material research and processing to reveal the diversity of colour held within these historic deposits.

The research also draws on historical accounts, including Alex Scott’s Ball Clay Memories (1923), connecting contemporary material investigation with earlier records of the region’s clay industry.

2. Cloam Omm

Cloam Omm — a historical clay oven reconsidered through contemporary making.

Cloam Omm is a fourteenth-century term for a clay oven. This project revisits and reconstructs this historical form, adapting it through the integration of contemporary technologies and materials.

The oven has been developed to incorporate modern appliances, a flue and a second floor, while retaining its fundamental relationship to clay, traditional construction and the material knowledge embedded in historical building practices.

The project uses MCM clay from Cobology, bringing contemporary clay practice into dialogue with the historical origins of the form. Through this process, Cloam Omm explores how traditional structures can be reinterpreted, adapted and brought into the present without losing their connection to material history.

3. Ception Magnétique

An ongoing investigation into neurodivergence, material processes and intuitive ways of working.

Ception Magnétique explores my neurodivergent approach to materials, making and research. Part documentary and part on-site material investigation, the project follows the processes of locating, observing and working with materials in their specific environments.

My practice develops through an intuitive and responsive exchange between myself and the materials I encounter. Observation, research, experimentation and discovery inform one another, allowing the work to evolve through unexpected connections and emerging possibilities.

Rather than following a fixed sequence, the project embraces a shifting process of thought and making. It documents a way of working in which material encounters generate new questions, redirect research and continually reshape the direction of the work.

4. New World, Lost Continents

A developing body of clay works exploring shifting thought processes, information technology and material transformation.

New World, Lost Continents is a new body of clay works emerging through an investigation into the shifting ways I process and engage with information technology.

The project will develop through research and material experimentation, following the connections that emerge between digital information, thought processes and the physical properties of clay. Rather than beginning with a predetermined outcome, the work will evolve through an open-ended process of enquiry, allowing ideas and materials to inform and transform one another.

Through this developing body of work, I aim to explore the relationship between technological systems, changing perceptions and the material world, considering how new forms of understanding might emerge through the act of making.

Developing Catalogue

A catalogue bringing together recent works and ongoing research is currently in development. It will document the projects, materials and processes that inform my practice, creating a broader record of their evolving connections.