This body of work explores the bottle as both vessel and metaphor, a container not only of liquid, but of memory, identity, and transformation.

Made in porcelain, a material that straddles the line between ceramic and glass, these bottles evoke the delicate transparency of Roman glass and the precise clarity of historical medical glassware from collections like the Wellcome Collection. Their forms nod to hip flasks tucked discreetly into pockets, and to the thrill of unearthing old green glass bottles from fields and riverbanks. Fragments of use now imbued with quiet reverence.

Thrown, textured, cut, and reassembled, each bottle begins as a traditional ceramic form before being altered into something entirely new. They are anthropomorphic. Leaning, curving, tilting. Each with its own gesture and spirit. This intentional irregularity rejects mass production, embracing the idiosyncrasies that arise from handcraft. In doing so, the work reframes what is often seen as functional or disposable into something precious, even collectable.

While the pottery wheel remains a key tool, it is not the master of the process. The pieces bear visible signs of the maker’s hand. Edges and seams speak to the presence of the craftsperson. “Flaws” are not corrected, here they are celebrated, marking the work as deeply human and delightfully unreplicable.

There is a joy here, of making, of material, of memory. In these bottles, the ordinary becomes whimsical, the utilitarian becomes poetic, and the overlooked becomes treasured.