This selection of my ceramic work is what I consider to be some of my most successful sculptures. Ceramics, like in Mendick’s work, is an integral part of my practice. The cathartic, physical nature of sculpting clay combined with its fragility makes it an apt metaphor for mental health and self-care. A sense of surrealism is also important to my work, and another element that I share with Mendick. Naturally, the recreation of foods in a hard and inedible material such as ceramics will always contain an element of surrealism. I wanted to exaggerate this through my play with scale, often making foods larger than they would be in real life, as if they were out of a dream. It also references childhood and memory, as we remember things as being so much larger when we ourselves were smaller. The link to children’s books and illustrations is also an important one; the foods do not echo real life, instead they create a magical, exciting but still uncanny visual representation of what a meal could be. 

 

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