White Trash Series

Mel Ford

23 November - 15 December 2020

The starting point for this body of work is at what is frequently perceived to be the end of a ceramic object’s life. Devoid of function, value and aesthetic these sea worn shards were gathered from Wellington’s South Coast. Each one contains small clues as to how, when and where the object to which it belonged was made. In gathering them up and refining them into new vessel forms I attempt to give new life to old things and create objects which transcend both time and place.