Abi Freckleton: Selected works, 2023-2024
Centered on the temporal aspects of materiality, Abi Freckleton uses everyday encounters between beings and spaces as anchor points in her research. Taking material, images, and objects from these moments, she uses heat-mediated processes to extract unexpected properties. The remnant shards, powders, and fluids are then re-aggregated in the kiln, becoming tentatively fused piles of rubble – not quite objects, but no longer raw matter.
Partially contained by smooth edges but revealing wild disorder in their chaotic interiors, they bare the marks of human constraint and construction alongside the entropic forces of nature. Each work is a monument to a specific moment but also a monument to time and space and matter, and their ongoing entanglement.
Captions (in alphabetical order)
- A million daughters, 2023, wood ash glaze on stoneware, pine needle ash glaze on porcelain and terracotta, egyptian paste with copper oxide, ‘sun yellow’ stain, glaze, H50 x W15 x D16 (cm)
- A turquoise ghost hovered just above the surface, 2023, Runswick bay sea cave clay, glaze, salt-evaporation self glazed ceramic, copper oxide, sand, photograph of ripples on the beach H14 x L91 x D10 (cm)
- All the waves before, 2023, photograph of ripples on wet sand, porcelain palm prints with found clay inclusion, porcelain fossilised t-shirt with salt-glazed surface, sand coated glaze, L70 x W3 x H7 (cm) and L50 xW 3 x D7 (cm)
- Just sprung ground, 2023, porcelain welly prints, glaze, puddle mud in porcelain, puddle mud in stoneware, photograph of forest undergrowth, H23xW34xD6 (cm)
- Last rays hang tight, 2023, stained porcelain with stoneware fragments, glaze, melted steel wire, digital photograph on porcelain, H21 x W15 x D10 (cm)
- Needle (iii), 2023, porcelain tiles double surfaced with photograph of forest sky and wood ash glaze, puddle mud twigs, glaze coated with high fired puddle mud powder, stained parian, H15 x W8 x D8 (cm)
- Slow motion downpour, 2023, fragments of ceramic with salt-evaporation self glazed surface, glaze, ‘sun yellow’ stain, copper oxide, terracotta, window glass, H15 x W29 x D7 (cm)
- Still today, already tomorrow, 2023, stained stoneware & porcelain, glaze, photograph of twilight sky, window glass, H19 x W40 xD 4 (cm)
- The breath that rose as we slept, 2023, terracotta fossilised and raku glazed pillowcase, glaze, photograph of sunrise on porcelain, window glass, H14 x W23x D5 (cm)
- The glow is fading, 2023, stained porcelain with stoneware fragments, glaze, H40 x W27 x D7 (cm)
- The sun drenches all fronds alike, 2023, puddle mud, porcelain puddle mud and terracotta puddle mud twigs, photograph of Maryam & Eva sitting amongst spring bracken, glaze, ‘sun yellow’ stain. H48 x W32 x D5 (cm)
- They lingered as softened holes, 2023, sand, porcelain, glaze, stains, H16 x W22 x D3 (cm)
