Ashton Meadows, Bristol
A project about an edgeland
2015-2018
This series of work celebrates a piece of unprepossessing land at Ashton Meadows on the banks of the River Avon, Bristol. The work is produced primarily from organic and artificial materials gathered on site which were cast in the studio to create vessels.
A dual carriageway, which spans the Avon at Ashton Meadows, has caused clay to bank up on the south side of the river. Collected and refined in the studio, this banal material produces glaze colours of treacle, ox-blood and occasionally spontaneous flecks of gold when heated in the kiln.
Pieces from this collection were exhibited at New Designers 2018 and The British Ceramic Biennial 2019.