For as long as I can remember I have used vessels in my art practice as a vehicle to explore my ideas around domesticity and memory. As objects pass through our hands they leave traces and imprints of ourselves on them.
This collection explores the vessel by looking at the etymological roots and symbolism of the word vessel from an embodied perspective. The word vessel, which stems from the Sanskrit ‘kumbh’, was used to refer to womb, mother, bounty and female body, This resonates with the humble pot's use as a domestic item and as a container for the body and soul.
Most of these vessels have been made using my own collection of pots as a form.
These hollow forms imply both a presence now absent and a potential not yet present


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