Sally MacDonell creates personalities within her clay figures that share a sense of warmth and calm. A great observer of people, she elevates everyday moments of human interaction, from the ordinary into something special.
All Sally’s figures are hand-built using slabs of clay and coils. Modelling spontaneously from the inside, squeezing and pinching the clay together, before pushing out. Layering oxides, slips, and engobes to develop complex finished surfaces that reflect the richness of human experience, Sally’s busts draw inspiration from medieval sculpture while remaining firmly rooted in the present, capturing a sense of universal humanity.
Sally has worked for the past 30 years as a professional ceramicist.
“At the core of my work lies connection. We are all human beings in a world preoccupied by differences, I seek common emotions, desires and behaviours that hopefully unite us all.”
