This work celebrates the tradition of hand-making processes used in the production of ceramic objects and investigates how new systems of digital technologies are transforming the work and role contemporary practitioners.
The project also aims to raise issues/debates on the impact of how the handmade is engaged with, valued and interpreted (by user and maker) and how these new modes of technology and production are shaping the current/next generation of makers in the ceramic industry. Researching the importance placed on the presence of the maker in a ceramic object and if this emblem of individuality is reduced or enhanced through the impact of new Systems of Production.
The content of this work takes the form as a performance piece and film aiming to provide a visual narrative about these shifts of production on the role of a craft person/maker. There are metaphors placed within the content of this work but its primary purpose is to become a catalyst (not a conclusion) to raise a framework of debate within the field of contemporary ceramics.