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.