Form is paramount; function is a driving motivation, but it is the aesthetics of a piece that are key to her making.

Since leaving Camberwell College of Art in 1998  Justine has been primarily

working with hand built porcelain. Her work addresses the boundaries

between function and decoration. Form is paramount; function is a driving

motivation, but it is the aesthetics of a piece that are key to her making.

Her early influences from London; buildings, windows, streets and sounds

remain with her, although she is now living in rural Wales.

 

Justine's work is very much concerned with the simplicity and beauty of the

clay and incorporating pattern, texture and glaze to create subtle, unique

variations. Thinly rolled clay and the varying size of each vessel allows the

clay to move in a tense yet natural way, the resulting movement being

integral to each piece.

 

This current body of work shows my developing interest with groups of

vessels. From different heights and angles the dynamic relationships

within each group shift and change, whilst careful layouts creates rhythm

and motion. Multiple connections can be seen between shape, form and

surface drawing the viewer in and encouraging them to look into and

around the groups, each one displaying its own unique character and

conversation.