Gareth Mason Undone

Price on request

Unique
2023
Porcelain, Stoneware, Granite Inclusion, Layered Oxides and Slips, Glazes, Lustre

The use of 'inclusions' in clay bodies is a time-honoured practice employed to strengthen the material. Mason selectively 'includes' various sands and gravels in his clays. The granite and slate elements included in the rough-hewn base of Undone are a deliberate aesthetic choice. Their unpredictable vitrification and irregular particle size imbue a guttural texture, and additionally imply a strong material link to the work's geological origins an the powerful processes unfolding beneath our feet.

Artist Biography

Gareth Mason is a British artist who, over his four-decade career, has consistently resisted the temptations of ceramic art’s conventions – particularly those surrounding the perceived purity of porcelain. Entangling irreverence and material risk with respect for ceramics history, Mason’s pots carry tensions and incompatibilities that defy straightforward resolution.