The Red Lion

These ceramic Communities are physical manifestations of The Pub - The Pub here considered as a metaphysical object existing within us, an internalised amalgamation of our entire experience of communal drinking. The communities’ namesakes are pubs which exist (or existed) physically and corpo-spiritually as a spaces steeped in shared communal experience, and spilled drinks.

The Community’s flagons are Thrown ‘off the hump’ from one measure of clay and decorated with generous lashings of slip and naively scalloped lips. Conversely, the Saggars are architectural sanctuaries drawing on their traditional utilitarian function to house the flagons from wheel head, through the intense heat of the kiln, to their exhibition. As the Pub, each Community is an unfolding conversation, an exchange, which through curation can reveal myriad relationships and possibilities. Each Community exists within a sanctuary, a space for protection, relationships, belief, merriment and community.

These vessels sit within a wider arc of pub related projects which are born from my need to enshrine and ceremonialise that which I experience corpo-spiritually. The collection which has been generated exists physically and is available for exhibition.