Unfixing

Unfixing presents a collection of wall and plinth based ceramic pieces, and a series of works on paper. Through a process of deconstructing and reconfiguring the component motifs, the work pushes into abstraction, exploring movement, space and colour. &Gallery, Edinburgh, August 2024.

"In Unfixing, pattern is pushed to its breaking point across a new vocabulary of striking forms. Yet, with the usual masterful control, Priest curtails its collapse. Her work teeters on the edge of systematisation and spontaneity, producing a visual complexity that surprises as much as it delights. An intuitive use of colour across diptychs and triptychs – forms more associated with painting than ceramics – capture the movement of pattern from its conception, via dissolution, to reassembly”

Extract from an essay by Ashley Thorpe
View the essay and exhibition catalogue. Unfixing

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Photography: Shannon Tofts