Art Practice
Image by Laura Martinez
My practice explores how objects and materials hold memory across time, connecting us to mortality. Working with locally foraged clay, handmade charcoal, and porcelain, I investigate how materials can transmit absence and collapse boundaries between past and present.
I often work with eyes closed - whether making touch drawings, forming clay, or burnishing surfaces - to access deeper material intuition. Current work includes investigating Roman face pots at Colchester Museum through touch and foraging London clays from building sites, exploring the ancient connection between clay and human mortality.
My pieces give physical form to loss - from memorial vessels that hold my daughter's fallen milk teeth to charcoal burnished into clay creating mirror-like surfaces where you see yourself 'in the dirt'. Informed by my decade of bronze patination experience, I approach making as a form of remembering.
Each piece invites intimate contemplation through touch - meant to be held, used, and lived with as vessels for memory and loss.
