On Saturday 5 October 2024 we will be joined in the gallery by ceramicist Jean White. Her current collection, ‘Future Fossils’, highlights the existential threats to British bird life. Inspired by bird watch and working from her own sketches, Jean’s aim is to raise awareness of Red List Birds by using metaphors.
Jean creates her own carved plaster moulds and slip casts in either porcelain or parian clay. She uses sprigs because of their similarity in appearance to fossils to imply extinction threat birds, and she makes concave and convex shapes to echo the way fossils are when they are split open.
More recently Jean’s work has started to incorporate transfer prints of her original sketches.
Jean will be chatting informally about her work and demonstrating some of her techniques, including how she makes her spring moulds. Booking is not required, just pop in between 2pm – 4pm to gain a valuable insight into this talented maker’s work.
