‘Minor Details’ is a solo exhibition featuring the works of Ceramic Artist Gemma Smale. Exploring the quiet power of scale, surface, and process through a series of large wood-fired vessels and sculptural forms. Working with wood fired kilns as both a tool and a collaborator, the pieces show the unpredictable marks of flame, different wood ashes, and time spent in the kiln. The results show subtle variations that reveal themselves on closer inspection.
Although the works command space through their size, the exhibition invites attention to subtle nuances in surface texture and texture telling the story of their firing. The ‘Minor Details’ offer a new way of understanding the making process and the materials used.
These larger scale offer a large surface to understand this process, how we can overlook the subtle variations in surface.
