I would like to show the completed artwork in 2012 in a 62 Group of Textile Artists’ exhibition.   2012 is a special year as it is our 50^th anniversary which will be celebrated with five exhibitions, and the publication of a new book ‘Radical Thread’.  The shows will be around the country which will allow students to see the inception of an idea blossom into print, and then have the opportunity to see the completed artwork on display in one of the shows. An important aim is to demonstrate to students that they too can complete their degrees with confidence, and with lots of determination and some good fortune, know they too will be able to achieve their own success stories.

Previous work has explored themes of imperfections and concealment, often producing multiples of a form to communicate a concept. Fragility has been explored through thinness of form, cracks, crevices and hollows.

My proposal for this residency moves to porcelain. I aim to explore porcelain through slip casting and the distortion of forms. Conveying fragility is key to my work.

I am drawn to pushing and molding forms to sculpt their contours when they are in fluid state; with glass when it is molten, and with porcelain slip through casting.

I intend to explore surface manipulation and light interaction - and the relationship this has upon the aesthetics of sculptural porcelain forms.

Drawn to the purity of form in the natural colour found in porcelain, I aim to investigate how light passes through this, or surface decoration, to embody an ethereal quality.

My work completed to date has crossed boundaries within the disciplines of installation and sculpture with work being exhibited on the floor, on plinths, suspended, or installed on walls.