Seaplaques

Seaplaques play with the concept of the plaques attached to buildings where notables once lived. The sea of course is always moving, flotsam can float but never be nailed to its surface. They are imaginary markers of both geographical/geological place and a place in time; preserving the idea of an ancestor and their existence, (rather than their achievements) and representing a relationship with them, and their relationship with the sea. In this way they crystallise something both individual and locational and I imagine them commemorating this way of thinking, symbolically attached to the place, long after the individual has moved on. Curiously they also have an islandness about them that is wholly fitting. Seaplaques incorporate found clay along with multiple glazes, beach sand and glass, indentations are made with found objects discovered on the shoreline and sometimes by taking impressions from real memorials…

Arranging them in different configurations and considering how the different places and people are embodied and relate to each other ins an important part of presenting the work.

Eyemouth Seaplaque I/ Birsay Seaplaque 2023/25

Studio reclaim clay, Eyemouth slip multiple glazes.

Porcelain and Birsay clay, multiple glazes, shell indentations

Orkney Seaplaque / Eyemouth Seaplaque 2023/2024

Orkney clay, salt, sand, shell indentations, multiple glazes

Eyemouth Clay , Seaweed indentations, sand, multiple glazes

Eyemouth Seaplaques, 2024

Eyemouth red clay, seawater, sand, multiple glazes