Sensual, sculptural and tactile, it’s easy to draw parallels between the human body and ceramics, not least because some of the earliest ceramics are ritualistic figures. Mayfair’s Sarah Mysercough Gallery is exploring that theme with Earthly Bodies, whose selection of works are “aware of a body in space: of figuration, reciprocity and of the myriad ways movement and transcendence become archived through bodies”. Julian Stair’s large abstracted figurative pots, Mella Shaw’s Unheard roped-together ceramics that speak of restricted bodily movement, and Jonathan Keep’s twisty intestinal vessels, coil-built with the aid of a computer, make for a compelling – and sometimes unsettling – mix.
