Geometry of Place brings together a series of Corbett’s hand built ceramic sculptures shaped through a slow, meditative process in which form and precision, intuition and emotion are held in quiet conversation. Each piece emerges as a moment evoked by the built environment; planes meeting at deliberate angles, apertures opening onto quiet voids, and shallow channels marking the surface like pathways or traces of movement in time. Though influenced by architecture, these works behave like sculptural maquettes: compact expressions of spatial ideas rather than representations of buildings themselves. Grounded and contemplative, they hover between certainty and fragility, structure and sensitivity.
Unfolding as spatial poetry, the wall works assemble layered topographies of colour, incision and shadow that shift with each change in viewpoint, the reliefs drawing the wall into their composition. The freestanding sculptures echo this language outward into space, their poised geometries enriched by industrially toned glazes and a shifting dialogue between satin and gloss, where light settles and recedes, sharpening edges, deepening shadows, and revealing the clay’s delicate warping and refinement — a quiet yet intentional reminder of the hand that shaped them. Together, these works invite a slow encounter -geometry not as rigidity but as a site of reflection, stillness and embodied presence.
They form a sculptural vocabulary that is both architectural and elemental: rigorous in structure, chromatically assertive, and attuned to the quiet emotional charge held within form.
Ceramics