Making the Implicit Explicit: A Defence of the Ephemeral in Ceramic Practice

This is an investigation of tacit knowledge in ceramic practice. Pottery possesses the unique ability to combine the conceptual, material and experiential through haptic experience and as an artist I believe this is of extraordinary importance in a digital world of increasing isolation. I have sought for years to bridge the divide between language and experience to explain the complexities of experiential engagements which precede and exceed the limits of linguistic description. To this end, I am always looking for new strategies and methodologies that challenge dominant assumptions that place language and theoretical abstraction above and before empirical and embodied knowledge.