Jacqueline Moore

Ken Eastman | Wake This Land | Thorns Gallery
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, 2023
White stoneware, painted with coloured slips & oxides

For Ken Eastman working through the medium of ceramics, he can be both builder and painter. Lines, surfaces and shapes give meaning and voice to mute clay, the material energised through his intuitive and intimate approach to slab building. The interplay of light, colour and space give structure and form to his vessels, resembling topographical sections through an imagined landscape. There is an intriguing tension between stasis and movement, provocation and quiet
reflection.

‘Wake this Land’ continues @thorns.gallery until 18 October 2026, by appointment
Featuring: Max Bainbridge, Helen Carnac, Ken Eastman, David Gates, Nicola Tassie.

The exhibition engages directly with our complex and shifting relationship to place through material, inviting an imaginative and tactile response. Through their divergent perspectives and disciplines, from clay to wood, metal and textiles, the artists’ experimental investigations explore new and evolving notions of the land that surrounds us. Possessing a unique visual language, the works on view reflect the entanglement of nature and the human, with both traces and
echoes of land use and lives lived. The exhibition presents narratives of journeys and encounters, rural environments and seasonal change exploring both our collective experience of the natural world, human presence and the artists’ intimate reflections on identity, shelter, home and belonging.

For further information about the artists or available works, please contact: [email protected]

To arrange a viewing, contact: [email protected]

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