Richard Anderson

Richard Anderson attends Project Ability’s Connect programme. Anderson’s fixation with clay continually drives his practice alongside his fascination in sensational archaeological findings. Starting points for his work have come from the archaeological hoax Piltdown Man; where the fossilised remains of a prehistoric human were thought to have been found in 1912 but later revealed to be a forgery.

Anderson creates functionless and defunct vessels through a figurative exploration and turning of the pottery wheel; the motion propelling his work and each outcome coaxing the process into further abstraction.