Clay Bodies
Developed during a research residency at the SPILL Think Tank, Ipswich, exploring clay, neurodivergent sensory experience, field recording, and moving image.
Clay Bodies was a week-long research residency exploring the relationship between clay, neurodivergent sensory experience, and embodied encounters with landscape through moving image and tactile material processes. Working across sculpture and film, the residency investigated clay as both a physical material and a sensory tool for attention, regulation, and non-verbal communication. Focusing on experimentation, allowing new ideas, methods, and interdisciplinary approaches to emerge through process.
Throughout the residency I worked through walking, gathering, filming, and making, using the surrounding environment as both subject and collaborator.
Moving image focused on close, tactile encounters with clay, gesture, and landscape, exploring how film can communicate embodied experiences of place and how neurodivergent ways of noticing and engaging with the world might shape artistic practice.
The residency provided an opportunity to test how sculpture and moving image could exist as interconnected material processes rather than separate disciplines. By bringing these approaches together, Clay Bodies laid the foundations for a new direction within my practice, expanding my research into clay beyond object-making and towards sensory, site-responsive, and process-led forms of artistic enquiry.
