clay under construction

Tin Mine Clay - setting up in the mill of Geevor Tin Mine. www.geevor.com

Ceramics made of clay from two Cornish mines by Alison Cooke and Dominique Fuglistaller. With photographs by Adam Sharpe. 

London Bridge Hotel are exhibiting work by local artists as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Included is some of my work from the London Bridge Clay Project. Made of clay dug from 30m below London Bridge Station as part of the Thameslink redevelopment. Now it sits just metres away from the site of excavation. 

Track - Extruded track profiles that distorts to something less recognisable. Made whilst the untangling of the tracks at London Bridge Station was taking place.

Internal maps to the site of white clay in Rosevale Tin Mine. Made of the found clay. 

Exhibition TIN MINE CLAY at Geevor Tin Mine from July 17th - Oct 2019

Tin Mine Clay. 

Image 1 - Made from white clay dug from the walls of Rosevale tin mine. 

Thanks to the Institute of Civil Engineers for including me in their exhibition “Water - from source to tap”. From 22nd March until 2020. 

Flush/Unflush 

Made of clay excavted from London’s furure supersewer. Installed in the Bazalgette Room at the House of St. Barnanbas, the room where Joseph Bazalgette designed the Victorian sewer 160 years ago.

Work in progress for Doulton/Bazalgette Project. Profile wrap arounds. Favourite sewer tunnel shape, 3′ wide x 6′2″ - enough space for one person to walk through with their arms by sides.

Made from clay excavated in the construction of London’s future supersewer.

Exhibition “Boring ends in Clay” in Joseph Bazalgettes former office at the House of St Barnabus, Soho Square, London. From April.

Sewer plans held at ICE. 

Salt glazing earthenware clay which was excavated from the future supersewer. First test firing to 1060°C. 1 kg table salt. 

In reference to Henry Doulton’s 1,000 miles of saltglazed sewer pipes which joined London’s buildings to the main pipeline of Bazalgette’s Victorian sewer.