Elly Wall

My work is hand built using slabs of clay with slips and textural marks and impressions applied during the making process. Glaze is also applied and sometimes rubbed back, then fired in an electric kiln. I often work in a variety of stoneware clays, although focussing on black clay at the moment. The inherent characteristics of this clay plays an important role in communicating tone and texture against the glaze, often producing a wethered enamel finish, bringing to mind the worn away surfaces of decaying objects.

​Form and texture is influenced by the compelling visual appeal of disused architectural forms. The physical and historical layers within these abandoned spaces expose and reveal details in their construction transforming once functional buildings into eerily beautiful empty vessels.