Gareth Mason Tank
Price on request
Unique
2023
Porcelain, Stoneware, Slate, Glazes, Slips, Oxides, Lustre
50.5 x 32.5 x 17 cm
19.9 x 12.8 x 6.7 in
Tank is a manifesto of Gareth Mason’s core belief: the pot is as powerful as any other form of human expression, comparable to cinema, opera, or poetry. Its objective presence at the centre of human civilisations, and its myriad variations, stand the pot on hallowed ground. Tank looks closely at what a pot can be. From a central cylindrical element, conventionally thrown on a potter’s wheel, Mason extends muscular stoneware ‘arms’ outwards, a dramatic divergence from conventional ceramic language. This departure climaxes in a raw shard of slate protruding from one extremity.
Artist
Gareth Mason
Gareth Mason is a British artist who, over his four-decade career, has consistently resisted the temptations of ceramic art’s conventions – particularly those surrounding the perceived purity of porcelain. Entangling irreverence and material risk with respect for ceramics history, Mason’s pots carry tensions and incompatibilities that defy straightforward resolution.
