The title of the show conjures the artist’s sculptural process. Manipulation, invention and interpretation of the inanimate clay catalyses distinctive yet enigmatic forms that evolve from fleshy bacterial-like matter into raw animalistic subjects writhing in a state of flux before arriving into fully formed surrealist chimeras. 

‘Attempting to plot a chronological journey brings us first to Emily Orte. Her ceramic creations seem to be inhabitants of ancient swamps, perhaps a short ancestral distance from the first multicellular forms.