Surfacing
12th August – 7th Sept 2025
Clay opens portals into unseen territories. To work with clay is to converse with time.
Surfacing is a solo exhibition by ceramic artist Heather Gibson, developed during her year-long residency as the inaugural Potter in Residence at County Hall Pottery. Surfacing invites reflection on the invisible layers within the objects that surround us, and the shifting, sedimentary histories embedded in the earth beneath our feet. The ground is both a surface and a vessel, a place where the past continues to re-emerge not as fixed marks, but as forces in constant transformation.
The exhibition will showcase a body of hand-built, gas and wood reduction-fired ceramic stoneware and porcelain. Ranging from sculptural forms to vessels and wall works, this collection navigates the threshold between function and abstraction, bringing to the surface the expressive and transformative potential of ceramic material and objects. By engaging in alchemical transformations – heat, fire, gravity, and friction – and an ongoing experimentation with reduction firing, Surfacing invites you to witness the sedimentation of time in material form.
Heather Gibson is a London-based ceramic artist. A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, Heather was awarded the Marit Rausing Scholarship for Ceramics & Glass (2024). She also holds a degree in Photography from Nottingham Trent University. Heather’s ceramics have been exhibited across the UK, including Thrown Gallery and The Leach Pottery. She is currently Potter-in-Residence at County Hall Pottery, working towards her first solo exhibition in 2025.
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www.heathergibsonceramics.com
