between body and clay (film - 15.00 min) - 2025
Made in collaboration with artist Rhiannon Hunter and supported by SHAPE Arts - 2024 Adam Reynolds Award. ‘between body and clay’ documents the intimate relationship of being with and processing raw clay within my art practice. The clay in the film was gathered in London from a local cemetery and is used within the installation ‘softening inherited knots’ - 2025. In its original form, the raw clay is dry and unmalleable, necessitating physically demanding gestures of care - removing debris, such as sand and stones, soaking the clay body in water, and burying hands in both the clay body and the water to create clay slip. These processes foster prolonged, repeated, and intimate engagements, creating a relational practice that explores clay and the body as material sites for ancestral liberation.
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