Artist tells story of everyday life with ceramic sculptures

AN EXHIBITION featuring an artist’s take on everyday life has gone on show in Goole.

The Junction is hosting a display of ceramic sculptures in the first solo exhibition by East Riding-based artist Ian Potter.

Mr Potter said he hoped each piece would tell its own story, with viewers drawing their own interpretation of the work.

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“It is my belief that any object, sculpture or work of art should be able to stand alone with no more introduction than its title,” he said.

Nicola Dixon, exhibition organiser for Goole Town Council, said visitors were enjoying the display.

“We are very pleased to work with Ian on his first solo exhibition and are lucky to host an artist of his calibre. We’ve had so many comments from members of the public about how much they have enjoyed a change from a static exhibition of pictures to Ian’s sculptures,” she said.

Each piece his handmade and painstakingly modelled, with the larger works taking more than a month of eight-hour days to complete.

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The sculptures are dried slowly to avoid distortion and cracking and are finished with a variety of surface treatments to bring out the detail and colour before being fired in a gas kiln to a temperature of 1,250 degrees centigrade.

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