Don't Let the Little Head Rule the Big Head

Brownsword’s ceramics are strange, otherworldly obsessions, collaging a process with clay that celebrates a fragmented, morsel-like approach over single resolved works — a reaction to years working in the production line at the Wedgwood factory in Stoke. ‘Don’t Let The Little Head Rule the Big Head’ finds the artist at his most figurative, forming his chemical offcuts of clay into rawly expressive narrative. Works from this period had begun to slyly reference exterior relationships, and here Brownsword has acknowledged a colleagues’ juggling of married life and ongoing infidelities as the oblique subject.