Contained

Smokefired white clay with Sussex clay slip interior.

Dimensions: 29 x 22 x 15 cm.

About the artist:
Katharine Rabson Stark is a ceramic and textile artist; a hand-builder and slow maker; a walker and forager; a collector and reflector; a coiler and a pincher; a thinker and a dreamer. Katharine makes hand-built decorative clay vessels that use the pinch and coil method. The shape of her hands, the mood she is in, the time she has and the place she is in, actively influences the finished pieces. No two pieces are the same, accentuated by her frequent use of unrefined sussex clay, and smoke firing, which is both carefully planned and also completely unpredictable. Grouped together her pieces gain meaning, communicating with each other and that of the beholder.