Untitled (Unfired porcelain sentences) – Susie Rose Dalton

The image depicts the words ‘this is something that you used to do’, made from unfired porcelain clay in small, delicate words. The words are stuck to a stone wall under a bridge
One of a series of unfired porcelain phrases, placed around Edinburgh upon lifting of the lockdown in late spring, 2021. Credit: artist.
The image depicts the words ‘this is something that you used to do’, made from unfired porcelain clay in small, delicate words. The words are stuck to a stone wall under a bridge
One of a series of unfired porcelain phrases, placed around Edinburgh upon lifting of the lockdown in late spring, 2021. Credit: artist.

I made a series of sentences and phrases from unfired porcelain which I placed around the city. I wanted to explore making ‘gentle interventions’ into public space, as a way of meeting people going about their days. I made these to reflect a transitory time between our inside and outside lives, something to accompany emerging while acknowledging how fragile that emerging was and continues to be. Because the pieces are unfired, they crumble and wash away with the rain, leaving no trace.

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Susie Rose Dalton is a contemporary artist. She works mainly with clay though her practice extends to video, performance, and painting, using simple and sensitive ways of working with materials to evoke tender parts of human experience. She is originally from Northern Ireland and has spent most of the last ten years in Scotland.