‘Bio-mechanical artefacts’ is a series of sculptural ceramics symbolic of the effect technological advancement is having on the world.

Consumption, temporality and permanence are the predominant themes behind the concept of this body of work.

Technology has consumed our lives with mass production diminishing the natural human ability to be self sufficient. The relationship between nature and technology remains unbalanced and uncertain. Each ‘artefact’ has been constructed using contrasting components and surface textures that represent the struggle between the natural and the manmade.

Identifiable mass-produced objects have been press moulded in stoneware clay and merged with hand built coiled sections. The overall form is an attempt to capture imagined characteristics of a futuristic fossil. An archaeological artefact: evident of the evolution of bio-mechanical organisms.

At the mouth of each piece an internal language of sharp teeth is revealed. This is achieved by the controlled application of stoneware slip mixed with oxides. The consuming and repellent nature of these teeth may fill the observer with unease, but is initially disguised by the inviting smoothness of its exterior form

The purpose of the series is to portray a legacy of the irreparable damage caused by the integration of technology into human civilisation.