Dean Coates

MA Ceramics

Igneous Futures

My practice is rooted in anxiety instigated by the accelerating effects of the Anthropocene. Humans face challenging futures in a polluted world with diminishing resources and extreme climates. Human extinction is highly probable. I imagine a future Earth where humans are absent but their legacy remains.

Using hand-forming and digital cutting techniques I create ceramic objects and vistas that record traces of the Anthropocene. I think of them as geological remnants or techno-fossils – evidence of human existence and our relentless unsustainable anthropocentric activities.

I imagine future visitors to Earth stumbling across these techno-fossils and attempting to interpret our history much like the Victorian palaeontologists unpicked the histories of deep time from the fragmented fossilised remains of extinct flora and fauna.

Other Exhibitors:

Sam Lucas

Sam Lucas

Only through the making do I look in. Not a looking predominantly with my eyes, a looking with my body, ending and beginning with my hands or more precisely my finger tips and thumb. Both hands working together in a repetitive, cathartic, rhythmic motion. Twisting...

Ashleigh Parsons

Ashleigh Parsons

Red, the feeling of enticement combined with deep red, the alluring pull of seductive intrigue. Black, the tension between intimacy and venture, and gold, the ripple of fulfilment. The abstract physical feelings turn into alluring colours to reveal feminine burning...

Chrisoula Konstantakou

Chrisoula Konstantakou

Terrapolis I find it fascinating that our material clay is the one constant while technologies continue to develop and push our designs and methods in ceramic making forward. My body of work illustrates how 2D laser technology works with precision on the surface of...

Charles Conreur

Charles Conreur

Foyer Foyer to be understood in its French context loosely translates to fire place and Home, a safe place of gathering and sharing. This word in its integrity grounds the conceptual nature of my practice with its ever changing and personal understanding to other and...

Mikky Saunby

Mikky Saunby

Untitled Composition Pushing the boundaries of the definitions of "body" and "object" brings us to a point of transition; no longer is the body required to be simply represented, but instead can be subtly suggested through visual metaphor. The fine line between body...

Jade Jenkins

Jade Jenkins

Appearance and Human Essence My practice is focused on bridging the gap between fashion theory and ceramic practice. I use artefacts to explore the relationship between the human body, clothing and identity with a focus on how these elements can be constructed into an...