3D ceramic

Liturgical Womb 2022

This work examines ender, inequality, and the Church through the form of the female reproductive system, which suggests a speculative body in a fighting stance, with an apple sticking out like a tongue, reaching from where a face might be. The protruding apple becomes a gesture of rebellion and agency, referencing Eve’s defiance in eating the forbidden fruit. 

Glazed in loose washes of liturgical colours, it explores the relational entanglements between body, identity, ritual, and authority, contrasting penance and atonement with joy, purity, and bodily sovereignty.

Through an interdisciplinary lens, the work investigates how social, cultural, and religious systems shape experiences of gender, morality, and power. The piece functions as both inquiry and intervention, asserting the resilience, sanctity, and enduring sovereignty of women within structures that have historically sought to define and constrain them.

Recycled white local clay, hand-built, slip, wire, paper, glazes and kiln fired. 32 x 28 x 12 cm