WILD CLAY: EXPLORING LOCALLY FORAGED MATERIALS
Hazel Barron and Duncan Salisbury
16.11.2026 – 22.11.2026*
* Plus a celebratory viewing on Thursday 19th November, from 5 - 7pm

Between them, Hazel and Duncan make art using a range of processes and materials, including ceramics, photography, writing, and working with foraged materials as ‘active collaborators’.

During their time in Studio 10, they will experiment with the properties and uses of locally foraged clay, which they’ve been collecting from sites within a few miles of East Quay.

Visitors are invited to take part in different stages of the process and find out more about the amazing materials on our doorstep!

About Hazel Barron:
My sculptural methodology is often based around mimicking thetechniques of insects or other critters. I experience materials as activecollaborators. Working this way provides a new language that allows me to seepast, and through, tangly human thought. This technique allows the subconsciousto safely map and externalize difficult material. I often feel that what I’vemade becomes a safe, somatic, ‘holding environment’.

I am very grateful to have discovered this insight, and I feel it is important to try to reciprocate by using gentle, non-extractive methods, and by exploring the scope and breadth of the rich and varied materials available on my doorstep.

About Duncan Salisbury:
‍My practice is rooted in my responses to place. I make ceramic pieces, photographs, and poems as I walk the coastlines of West Somerset. All three disciplines resonate with each other in a creative space somewhere between intention and instinct. My approach is shaped by a respect for the natural world, an appreciation of form and texture, and being open to capturing whatever the landscape offers up in any given moment.

All images courtesy of the artists.