MA Degree Show - Sept 2024

Ash to Ashes Exhibition

7 Ash Trees
7 Stele (Memorials)

“We shall not cease from exploration, 
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
— T.S.Eliot

  • Ash to Ashes Exhibition with 7 Steles (monuments) and clay-decorated hessian shroud hanging from a fallen ash bough. Heights of the steles range from 2.5 ft to 10ft.

  • Detail showing earthenware and raw clay steles with the clay-decorated hessian shroud.

  • The detail shows the ash wood-ash glazed rings.

  • Two earthenware steles, a raw clay one and the ash wood-ash glazed ringed stele in the front.

  • Close-up of the shroud showing the daubs of red slip.

  • Detail of the stele showing the Black Ditch clay slip fired to bisque on crank clay.

  • A kin of 4 stele

  • Detail of the stele showing different earthware clays used.

  • Looking up.