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Series One
Manufactured Distractions and Intersections I - VI

Various themes and styles intersect throughout the body of work presented in this exhibition and its catalogue.

A series of ceramic statements incorporate transfers as simulated fragments, in a way evocative of a world
fragmented through multiple simultaneous forms of communication. There is, indeed, not one way of looking

at things anymore. Decorative compositions initiated with my ballpoint drawings were digitally printed
to become ceramic transfers and subsequently fired on to ‘ready-mades’ in various shapes and forms. The

transfers are applied in varying arrangements, to emulate shattered or restored ceramic vessels. The broken
fragments fit together, yet the decoration on each juxtaposed shard contrasts sharply with the next one. This

contradiction was achieved by slicing through an underlying, transfer-applied theme or style, making way for
another and resulting in a jarring visual effect. In contemplating the vessel, the viewer thus encounters both

decorative and rather distracting elements.

Manufractured Distractions and Intersections I (vase). November 2019, 365mm height.
Digitally printed ceramic transfers of my ballpoint pen drawings of a five clawed dragon,
a flaming pearl, a football, mist, a tulip, flies, dung and a dung beetle, in a variety of compositions
to illustrate the titled theme. Fired onto a thrown porcelain readymade vessel.

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