| Project Title | Gossip Pots |
| Location | Black Barn Studios Framlingham Suffolk |
| Date | 28th Feb – 2nd March 2025 |
Artist Statement
I’m an experimental artist working in sculpture, textiles, assemblage, and mess. Clay is my anchor… earthy, unpredictable, and full of attitude. I work with what’s to hand: doll’s hair, thread, textiles, recycled plastic, and found objects. My practice draws from a cauldron of feminist witchcraft, gossip-as-method, and ancestral rumour. Vessels become voices… containers of the unsayable.
This body of MA work spirals around the female voice… its suppression, resilience, and raw power. Each piece is part spell, part protest, part archaeological find from a future we haven’t yet imagined. Think sacred meets salvage, stitched with passion and a side-eye at the patriarchy.
I don’t just make objects… I build conversations, contradictions, and portals.
Contextual Statement
Treading the footprints of untold stories… where ghosts roam and ancestral murmurings linger… this project unfolds in the shadow of Framlingham Castle. A place of power and persecution. Its presence becomes more than a backdrop…it provokes. The rural site of Black Barn Studios, rich in historical memory and local lore, shapes the work through landscape, conversation, and community. Here, tradition collides with disruption, and the Gossip Pots step forward as artefacts of narrative and critique.
The work spirals around storytelling, its shifting role from whispered survival to public shaming. These pots are not passive; they speak. Formed from clay…earthy, stubborn, and ancient…they hold space for silenced voices and fractured truths. Into them I weave discarded tech, synthetic hair, barbed wire, driftwood & textiles… materials both sacred and scavenged, colliding and conspiring to tell stories often overlooked.
My process is layered and experimental. Clay is hand-built, torn, scarred, stitched, and pierced. Textiles mimic ancestral knowledge, passed on through hands and whispers. Surfaces crack and blister, revealing the raw tension between beauty, damage, and resistance.
Light becomes collaborator…casting shadows that move with time, ghosting across the walls. The installation breathes… flickering between presence and absence.
This body of work lives in the tension between seen and unseen, told and untold. It honours the voices buried under history’s weight and offers up vessels as containers for the unsayable.
Video of Gossip Pots with Narrative of Gossip from the story TAKEN
Black Barn Studios. Framlingham Suffolk
