Jane Wheeler
Chalk Beach Layer Three Spouted Vessel with Combing
54 x 30 cm
For Jane Wheeler, the vessel is a space-containing hollow form that offers the richest language for working in clay.
Its conceptual simplicity allows readings which allude to our most distant cultural pasts, and to the state of being human. Its limitations are those for which the potter's tools and equipment are designed; it is a familiar scenario within which to work.
Thus it becomes necessary for Jane Wheeler to make working and the work uncomfortable in some way, to push the boundaries in order to attempt discovery of new or hidden qualities of this profoundly significant, yet ordinary object.