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# Project Description "She Sells Sea Shells" Caitlin Froud Summary Final work I’m a ceramicist and storyteller from the small English seaside town of Whitstable, world famous for its oysters. My work has a heavy importance on connecting you to a place through it's local materials, fuelled by a sugary sour beachy nostalgia and a deep connection to my hometown and its landscape. I’m a ceramicist and storyteller from the small English seaside town of Whitstable, world famous ... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Ceramic Design Graduation year 2025 At its heart, my work intends to connect you to the small seaside town of Whitstable I call home, telling a story through broken poetry and its local materials. Growing up by the sea means I have been graced with buckets full of sweet girlhood memories of taking part in the town's annual Oyster Festival held in the summertime. Fuelled by this sugary sour beachy nostalgia written in broken poetry and a deep connection to Whitstable’s landscape, my ceramic collection uses oyster harvest baskets often seen in the harbour as a muse and local waste oyster shells and oak ash from my fireplace as alternative glaze ingredients that represent a hometown landscape, adding potent meaning to the ceramic wares and hopes to start a dialogue around why materials matter. Final work broken poetry musing about growing up by the sea in Whitstable, a town world famous for its oysters. stoneware harvest basket width 20cm x height 23cm oyster shell traces Research and process part of my material research : oyster shells that have been fired in the kiln ready to be crushed into a fine powder and added as a glaze ingredient. throwing my oyster baskets on the wheel width 20cm x height 23cm Share this project At its heart, my work intends to connect you to the small seaside town of Whitstable I call home, telling a story through broken poetry and its local materials. Growing up by the sea means I have been graced with buckets full of sweet girlhood memories of taking pa... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Places & Spaces Materiality
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