Gareth Mason

I want to bypass the rationalising constraint of hard-won technique and the ‘hard-wiring’ accrued through years of habit. So I dig rocks and minerals and fire them unprocessed, as a foil to my ceramic dogma. This compulsion has unmasked all the latent tensions in my work. My delight in the ‘volupté’ of soft porcelain is now augmented with visceral textures and the blackest corrosion. This is a revelation of extremes. Parched and encrusted terrain is traversed by molten rivulets and conjoined with ice floes. These qualities are tectonic and intimate; it is about being whole, being human. My great challenge now is to draw my work ever further into this arena of feeling because only here do the results appear truthful. And truth is the only Holy Grail worth chasing.

I want to bypass the rationalising constraint of hard-won technique and the ‘hard-wiring’ accrued through years of habit. So I dig rocks and minerals and fire them unprocessed, as a foil to my ceramic dogma. This compulsion has unmasked all the latent tensions in my work. My delight in the ‘volupté’ of soft porcelain is now augmented with visceral textures and the blackest corrosion. This is a revelation of extremes. Parched and encrusted terrain is traversed by molten rivulets and conjoined with ice floes. These qualities are tectonic and intimate; it is about being whole, being human. My great challenge now is to draw my work ever further into this arena of feeling because only here do the results appear truthful. And truth is the only Holy Grail worth chasing.


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