These ceramic sculptures play with ideas of gravity and mass, slumping, solid heaviness of form, oozing glazes capturing movement frozen in material. The Plutons take their name from the term for the indeterminate bulbous masses of magma that form beneath volcanoes.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dean Coates is a qualified geologist and has a background in brick manufacturing, education and studio ceramics. He is interested in the journey and changing states of geological matter. How they are created, altered, transported, deposited and extracted. The story of deep time spanning millions of years.

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