Amy Douglas

I make small sculptural works from broken Staffordshire pottery figurines, surreal interventions connected to the original body of the pottery. Where the piece is broken directs my intervention; I fuse narrative and historical context to create a unique and extraordinary object for our extraordinary times. Working with traditional restoration techniques and forming my own version of Japanese Kintsugi repair, I work with the craft of gesso, gilding materials and recipes from the 14th century, I create and re-invent these objects: a folk art reloaded celebrating the perfect imperfect . I am interested in the narrative that comes with ownership of objects. Hereditary tales of families and individuals becomes integral to the story of the inanimate. They are often portholes to another time . The nations’s pottery figurines are the props to the stories of our lives, loves, travels and personal folktales, my titles are a reflection of this , influenced often by the things people say in passing , a comment , social media statement, a quip, the echoes of our verbal social detritus . East Sussex