KATE WINDIBANK

Kate Windibank’s practice involves continuous exploration of form and texture, with particular emphasis on ceramic materials, fragmentation, and natural processes. 

Based in Hertfordshire, Kate creates unique ceramic artworks that have been displayed across the UK and on the European continent...

Inspired by the concepts of geological formation, erosion and the transformational nature of time, she searches for the most intriguing sense of balance and contrast, strength and fragility, creating forms with undulating edges, fault lines and fissures.

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. Later, 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.