Ben King

Alongside my studio work for the Master of Fine Art degree in ceramics, I have been making music using the sampling method. This process has largely influenced the way I worked on my mosaics. In the similar way to sampling various sounds and music while creating tracks, I was incorporating old ceramic plates, as well as newer tiles in my mosaic works. It felt incredibly freeing to use both sounds and objects to create a puzzle for myself to solve, almost like I am a third party overseeing the construction of a building.

The tiles I made are squares and rectangles about the size of my hand. I was using slip and underglaze in each tile as a small singular painting and using different gestures and imagery on each. It was all depending on the day or what was happening in my life; they were small enough to finish quite quickly and honestly. They feel like individual diary entries of my year.

I have also taken moulds of various toys I have collected throughout my life and made copies of them. These moulded pieces will serve to section off the walls in the mosaic, like warriors protecting the memories inside.