‘Clay Station’, 2018
Commissioned by Art on the Underground, Clay Station is a collaboration with Assemble that transformed a kiosk at Seven Sisters station in North London.
The two year project was curated by Kiera Blakely. It was an enormously rewarding process as we were given time to experiment with colour and form before producing the tiles together. The making team consisted of Mat Leung & Adam Willis (both Assemble), Gerald Mak, Abigail Holsborough, Anthony Walsh and myself.
The public can access the work from the street and get up close to the 1500+ hand-made tiles that clad the exterior of the building. It is now a coffee shop.
This production entailed colouring more than a tonne of superwhite high firing clay with body stain and mixing together different blocks in combinations before they were sized, rolled, moulded, cut, dried, fired and glazed by hand.
Assemble
Links
- ‘Clay Station’ on London’s Underground (YouTube)
- Art on the Underground: Assemble and Matthew Raw
- Assemble on ‘Clay Station’
Thanks to: everyone mentioned above, Assemble, Rachel Moss and Andy Allum.
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‘Art School Types’, 2023
Typographic exterior artwork on The Generator building in central Loughborough. The piece was made as part of The Handicrafts Residency with LU Arts
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‘Welcome Cupboard’, 2020
Entrance cupboard entirely clad – inside and out – in handmade tiles. Made to order for The New Craftsmen