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University of Portsmouth   2004/2005

Jo Davies

All my work is made from clay, a material that I value for its adaptability, malleability and longevity. I see the strips of clay I make as a style of drawing - the edges being a metaphor for line. In this way I can draw whatever I want. The work I have made within the last year celebrates, in part, feminine frills and curls. It attempts to make serious a style of visual language that is often perceived, consciously or not, as light, lacking in gravity or 'just decorative.'

Each project I undertake tends to pivot around the state of human perceptions and behaviour, trying to visualise our relationships with objects and each other and how we relate through those objects. I see clay as the right material to carry these kinds of ideas because of its history - clay being one of the most widely and intimately used materials in society. All my work is made from clay, a material that I value for its adaptability, malleability and longevity. I see the strips of clay I make as a style of drawing - the edges being a metaphor for line. In this way I can draw whatever I want. The work I have made within the last year celebrates, in part, feminine frills and curls. It attempts to make serious a style of visual language that is often perceived, consciously or not, as light, lacking in gravity or 'just decorative.'

Each project I undertake tends to pivot around the state of human perceptions and behaviour, trying to visualise our relationships with objects and each other and how we relate through those objects. I see clay as the right material to carry these kinds of ideas because of its history - clay being one of the most widely and intimately used materials in society.