Kate Windibank’s creative practice involves a continuous investigation of form and surface, with particular emphasis on ceramic materials, fragmentation and rebirth. Exploring the concepts of human experience and the transformational nature of time, Windibank’s sculptural ceramic vessels are abstracted geological formations, whose undulating edges, fault-lines and fissures reveal the story of their creation.

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The process begins when soft clay is torn, then pressed into moulds, once firm, the clay is broken into shards and used to create fragmented forms. As the pieces are constructed ceramic oxides are embedded into the crevasses of the clay. When the work is fired and the heat-work of the kiln turns the clay to stone, these oxides are drawn to the surface, reacting with glaze to create movement and texture that remains permanently frozen on the surface of the vessel.

Once complete Windibank's work still shows it’s transformational journey, these are objects that can be investigated and reappraised, as each viewing reveals new juxtapositions of detail, process, form and event.