Annie Turner: Mussel Bed

Annie Turner (b. 1958)
Annie Turner grew up beside the River Deben, in Suffolk, learning to sail, swim and fish for herring using driftnets. Her passion for, and immersion in, this intertidal landscape was born of a working connection to the river which continues to exert major influence on her ceramic forms.

Layers of coiled clay ‘ropes’ are built into intricate openwork structures which, with names such as ‘Net’ ‘Mussel Bed’ ‘Jetty’ talk of the river’s architecture not just as the ‘acres of silent mudflats and meandering creeks’ but of man’s continuous living relationship to the river through time. Turner works with the dynamic processes of kiln firing clay to develop her compelling sculptural forms, learning to control, work with and adjust the slump, shift and tilt of the clay structures, during firing.

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