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This exhibition will be the latest in a series of presentations the gallery has curated centred on the cultural and formal significances of clay. The group exhibition, Embodying Anew, opened in May 2021, with the work of Simone Leigh, Magdalene Odundo and Thaddeus Mosley. In July 2022, A Passion for Form featured a selection of works from the collection of Dr Brian Harding including work by Magdalene Odundo, Jennifer Lee, Hans Coper, and Peter Collingwood.

Some of the earliest signs of humanity’s existence are pottery shards; changing raw clay into a fixed state by baking it at a high …