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entered in the Uku Clay Awards 2020; awarded 2 prizes by esteemed judge, Sir Rick Rudd.

This is one of my earliest porcelain seasponge casts: I used mid-fire porcelain slip, raw glazed, and fired in a gas reduction atmosphere to orton cone 8 (about 1240 degrees celsius).

Using only stable, non-toxic materials in my ceramics practice, and firing to point of vitrification allows me to confidently offer the works as aquarium architecture.

This was the first piece to find its home in a small aquarium.....

George the turtle welcomes his new home decor in June 2019.

He shares his tank with a number of small fish and other aquatic life.

By February 2020, the porcelain seasponge has taken on a life of its own, becoming a functioning part of George's tank ecology.  It provides habitat for the small fish to hide and breed, and a surface for plant life to attach to, as well as furniture for George.