'Earthscape Cosmography'
'Into the Distance', Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2023/Invoking Absence', Hallidays Mill Gallery, Chalford, 2021
Medium: fired and glazed porcelain and earthenware, oil paint, leather, unfired clay, bioplastic
Earthscape Cosmography is an evolving assemblage of objects and reconstructed relics imprinted with the maker's hand. These are dwelling materials suggesting activities of foraging and sheltering reaching across human timescales, referencing ancient mining tools used for 'scratching the earth', as well as hearth-making materials, tools and play.
Earthscape Cosmography has been exhibited several times and each time it gains an artefact in response to its new situation, adding to the palette of materials and the criss-crossing of timescales.
