West_Adrift
@west-adrift.bsky.social
Ceramics|Artist|Bricoleur, making use of the materials at hand #ceramics #artandscience #landscape
This weekend…open studio…in East London!
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This weekend…open studio…in East London!
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Stability is what allows people to heal, learn English, find work and become part of their communities. The government must provide people with the security to get on with their lives. Read more here 👉 thetimes.com/article/6f83...
Refugees who were months away from settlement now face 15-year wait
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms will apply retrospectively, it has been confirmed — and it is claimed the bureaucracy will cost up to £1.3bn
thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Stability is what allows people to heal, learn English, find work and become part of their communities. The government must provide people with the security to get on with their lives. Read more here 👉 thetimes.com/article/6f83...
Studio visits and self imposed reading list for ‘Undergrowth’
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Studio visits and self imposed reading list for ‘Undergrowth’
If you are in London come to our studio open 29/30th Nov…artists talk each day 2pm
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If you are in London come to our studio open 29/30th Nov…artists talk each day 2pm
A night time teapot street find…
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A night time teapot street find…
Making clayey soil from across borders into grog for #icontainmultitudes
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Making clayey soil from across borders into grog for #icontainmultitudes
Almost imperceptible rainbow…
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Almost imperceptible rainbow…
Teaching several wild clay courses next year in London… @citylit.bsky.social
Starts 1st March 2026 www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/fora... and later in June at WAES.
Starts 1st March 2026 www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/fora... and later in June at WAES.
October 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Teaching several wild clay courses next year in London… @citylit.bsky.social
Starts 1st March 2026 www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/fora... and later in June at WAES.
Starts 1st March 2026 www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/fora... and later in June at WAES.
The reach on Bluesky is limited but on the off chance…the next mould making course I’m teaching @wmc-adultlearning.bsky.social starts 22nd November! www.wmcollege.ac.uk/course-detai...
October 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The reach on Bluesky is limited but on the off chance…the next mould making course I’m teaching @wmc-adultlearning.bsky.social starts 22nd November! www.wmcollege.ac.uk/course-detai...
Experimenting with turning London clay into grog and tonally addition to white stoneware #icontainmultitudes
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Experimenting with turning London clay into grog and tonally addition to white stoneware #icontainmultitudes
Fun was had bat detecting in Braunton @batconservation.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fun was had bat detecting in Braunton @batconservation.bsky.social
Experimental ceramics @citylit.bsky.social the seed inclusions have sprouted contributing to the surface of layered clay
July 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Experimental ceramics @citylit.bsky.social the seed inclusions have sprouted contributing to the surface of layered clay
Hiding things awkwardly under awkward things…
July 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hiding things awkwardly under awkward things…
Reading this is another reminder of the difficulties I had/have with ambiguous language on tests and forms. In the exam i would fixate on this instead of answering the questions…I would know the answers but couldn’t work out what the questions wanted from me.
June 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reading this is another reminder of the difficulties I had/have with ambiguous language on tests and forms. In the exam i would fixate on this instead of answering the questions…I would know the answers but couldn’t work out what the questions wanted from me.
"Uncertainty is the most rational position to embrace, and unlike optimism or pessimism, it does not entrench us in complacency or inaction."
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair @theguardian.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair @theguardian.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair
Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach existential challenges
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.
May 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Accidental clay poem
May 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Accidental clay poem
Small pop up exhibition on our studio_10|11 May 12-5pm - Leyton London sculptural ceramics exhibition
May 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Small pop up exhibition on our studio_10|11 May 12-5pm - Leyton London sculptural ceramics exhibition
Processing London clay donated by Golden Earth Studio…my joy was unmatched by others.
April 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Processing London clay donated by Golden Earth Studio…my joy was unmatched by others.
It popped into my head…the memory of our family dog hiding rich tea biscuits in the garden 🤎
April 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It popped into my head…the memory of our family dog hiding rich tea biscuits in the garden 🤎
We are looking for a new studio member to join us at Cultivate Artists Studio, a small group of clay-based artists. Ideally the new member should have a practice within the field of sculptural ceramics
The studio is based in a railway arch in London, Leyton (E10)…DM for more details!
The studio is based in a railway arch in London, Leyton (E10)…DM for more details!
April 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We are looking for a new studio member to join us at Cultivate Artists Studio, a small group of clay-based artists. Ideally the new member should have a practice within the field of sculptural ceramics
The studio is based in a railway arch in London, Leyton (E10)…DM for more details!
The studio is based in a railway arch in London, Leyton (E10)…DM for more details!
Dividing up the clay spoils between our members…gifted to our Cultivate Artists Studio by Golden Earth Studio from a construction site #londonclay.
April 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Dividing up the clay spoils between our members…gifted to our Cultivate Artists Studio by Golden Earth Studio from a construction site #londonclay.
The joy of organising studio ceramic materials.
April 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The joy of organising studio ceramic materials.