Artist Statement

My practice explores the unstable relationship between the body, control, and failure. Working primarily with wheel-thrown stoneware, I begin with forms that are structured through repetition and intention, then push them toward distortion, collapse, and unpredictability. The resulting sculptures exist somewhere between control and surrender, retaining evidence of both the hand that shaped them and the forces that altered them.

My forms are often bodily without attempting to represent the body. They stretch, swell, fold, rupture, and hold tension within their surfaces. Colour and glaze become equally physical, obscuring and revealing what exists beneath them through layers of opacity, translucency, gloss, and texture. Rather than treating the surface as a finish, I use it as a site of sensation and uncertainty.

At the centre of my work is an ongoing curiosity about interiority: what it might mean to become sufficiently open to witness what exists beneath the surface. I approach this question through material processes that make vulnerability tangible. I stretch clay until it becomes precarious, build up and disrupt surfaces, and allow forms to retain the marks of their own instability.

I think about vulnerability not as a state of weakness, but as a condition of permeability. My work remains caught between holding itself together and allowing itself to change, asking how much control can be relinquished before a form becomes something else.