Sid Turner

MA Art & Design

Ceramics

Statement

My work is about time and our experience of it; the apparent Stasis of the Form, the decay of that form and its minerals and the rebirth of that form within the fire when molten, as in a volcanic eruption. Clay is responsive and it reacts to touch with appropriate resistance, flowing under the passion of the hand, as a woman. On larger torso pieces the surface topographically is alive, the textures heightened by glass I introduce in a powdered granular form. Rare metals crawl to the surface from the hidden depths released by the powdered acids of the molten glass. I extract the valuable from the debris of scrap electronics, computers and industrial waste and using the alchemy of fire let it burst forth anew.