Refigured: Clay, Figuration, and Fragmented Bodies

By Tana West The latest exhibition at County Hall Pottery draws attention to the figurative turn in contemporary ceramics, not just a return to representational forms but a recognition that ceramic materials and processes themselves generate new figurative possibilities. The works in the exhibition reimagine, reshape, and reuse the language of figuration to destabilise ideas […]

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