Bronze Age Gold from Wales

For thousands of years, in many cultures across the globe, people have made symbolic associations between the human body and ceramic vessels. The body can seem to be a container for the spirit, while pots have necks, bellies, feet. This pot by Alison Britton echoes the form of a human torso and brings that ancient tradition into the contemporary world. Britton’s pots are slab-built and expressively painted; she explores the forms of vessels, intending us to investigate them with our eyes and minds rather than use them. She describes her work as “a still-life of a pot done in clay".