ceramic sculpture — Katherine Sankey

**Crater** 2025, ceramic, glaze, copper, 32 x 40 x 42

**Crater** detail 2025, ceramic, glaze, copper, 32 x 40 x 42

**Crater** 2025, ceramic, glaze, copper, 32 x 40 x 42 image through window at College Lane Gallery Howth, Ireland

*Terraphoric, Crypterod, Shaderator* in ***This Too Will Pass***, 2025 Galway International Arts Festival @ INTERFACE Connemara, Ireland

***Convergence*** exhibition 2025, Curved Street Gallery Dublin

*Loxodrome* 2023 (sold), best sculpture prize, RHA Annual Exhibition 2025 Photo Ros Kavanagh

Coral_ations

is an on-going series of hand-built ceramic modules that are (interchangeably) table and wall sculptures. These are physical research-experiments into the parallels of our built environment and the architecture of corals. The minerals are the same - the construction for the same purpose..- to protect our soft bodies..
The artist's making of these 3D drawings of corals, attempts to imitate their 4 dimensional shapes (interior and exterior on the same plane, like a möbian strip) while correlating the form with modular product design.
The glazes further 'humanize' and mechanize the naturalised form - hopefully opening up a conversation about the function of the human..

CORAL_ATIONS ceramic sculptures in RHA Gallery 2023 during solo exhibition EarthLab: living matters