Georgia Black

My research contemplates the ecological impact of a ceramic practice, and the discord between my love of the medium and the unease I feel towards the extractive systems that it relies on. Using ceramic waste material and process-based experimentation, my work explores the narratives contained within the material residues generated in a ceramic studio.

Calibrating my relationship to the materials of my practice, I look inwards at the chemistry I share with them, as well as outwards at the scars all over the earth generated from mining. I map them through deep time, back to their geologic origins, and forwards into an unknown future, where the objects I make will outlive me, and reflect how these materials are valued in the present.