From Contemporary Ceramics

Jenny Southam hand builds figurative sculptures in terracotta clay. She delights in exploring colourful gestural mark-making over their surfaces. This painterly decoration aims to echo the emotional resonance of each piece. Jenny also enjoys working across a variety of scales, and for this exhibition she has been constructing a new series of monumental busts and a series of small classical figurines. The ideas for her hand-built and hand-...