Kate Haywood - Rin

'Rin' (2018) from the Language of Clay series. Onyx Black Porcelain 164-ONYX. Image credit Dewi Tannatt Lloyd.

‘Haywood’s sculptural works may appear strangely familiar.  You may sense the form of a horn drinking cup; a colour palette resonant of Elizabethan tapestries; the ancient games of India and the Orient as if still in play. The walls and surfaces upon which her work is placed reverberate with the shadows of human things - from everyday life, amusement or ceremony.  It is as if their maker has travelled through time at lightning speed, shifting shape from West to East; staining her skin with these traces, writing her objects in their language.