(Marie) Therese Newman

My work is concerned with the fragility of life and the transience of earthly things.  I find my inspiration in the memento mori and Vanitas traditions and in the clay itself, which I feel has an ephemeral quality.  My forms are created by nature and transformed into ceramic sculptures by the firing process leaving fragile crusts formed on things that once were.  I use a combination of clay, fibre, plants, wood, metal and glass in pieces that are often too delicate to touch.