2025, stoneware and porcelain, Diptych – large 32h x 20 dia cm, small 25 x 14 dia cm

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The title of this diptych comes from the medieval belief that Barnacle Geese grew from barnacles rather than hatching from eggs. Bestiaries showed them emerging from shells and hanging from branches, blurring boundaries between flora, fauna, and the unknown.

This work brings together earthy terracotta stoneware and fragile porcelain, highlighting the tension between their contrasting qualities – rough and smooth, dark and light. Porcelain pushing through the brown clay, exposing what lies beneath.  The push and pull of the clay mirrors an interior landscape shaped by ideas of race, normality, gender, and the lingering shadows of violence.

Porcelain becomes a material expression of the histories carried in the body, resurfacing in ways that are sometimes painful and always unpredictable. What emerges is vulnerable and resilient, fragmented yet beautifully alive.