Speaking about Periphery Materials
Last Updated 01.08.25
Speaking about Periphery Materials
Last Updated 01.08.25
Potter, designer and materials researcher based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Moving toward less extractive, lower carbon ways of designing, making and building things.
I believe that the most interesting work happens at the intersections—between art and science, craft and industry, design and engineering.
Painting, researching, throwing, teaching, 3D printing - I am not interested in ‘staying in my lane’.
I enjoy big challenging problems and fresh ideas.
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July 2025
Using recycled clay as its anchor, it explores the potential of local waste materials and power of creative cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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Many of the transition metal colouring oxides used in ceramics are mined in highly questionable conditions causing all kinds of social and environmental damage.
This project looks to explore Iron as one of the most abundant and least harmful of the metal oxides we use in ceramics.
By changing the surrounding chemistry of the glaze - different colour expressions were developed.
Porcelain & Slip
Searching for marking making that is truly spontaneous and free from hesitation.
This work felt a bit like learning how to be myself.
Eutectic glaze made from porcelain trimmings and wollastonite. Porcelain slips made thick and viscous in an effort to emulate oil paints.
My own ceramic work was inspired by painters like Mark Rothko and Gehardt Richter. Before making marks on clay I tried them out on paper, walls, workbenches - whatever surface was to hand. I learned to enjoy that process from stretching paper to building layers of colour - which meant something to me, if not to anyone else.
I enjoy the energy and spontaneity and the risk of something being bad, but doing it anyway. The feeling you get just before you start as much as the outcome you get at the end.