Artists Statement
Cork based sculptor Martha Cashman studied in Crawford College of Art Cork and works mainly with
porcelain. This delicate material in conjunction with heavier materials such as woven wire and carved
wood bring together a collection of unusual objects with textures arising out of exploring mixing seeds
and dried pulses such as fennel seeds, rice and dried peas into the clay and layering bright lustres of
gold and bronze glaze on top.
Her work has won several awards and is held in many private collections.
‘We use utensils at least three times a day, yet we rarely think of how they came into being in terms of
shape size and materials they are made of, we were eating with our hands up to the Middle Ages, the
development of the eating utensil is an interesting story. Coastal peoples had access to an abundance
of shells; a stick fastened to the shell allowed for a multipurpose tool, farmers used the hollow horns of
sheep and goats as a vessel for liquid thus began the development of the spoon.
The pieces I create serve as forms of personal narrative, from memories of a rural upbringing, a
collection of sculptural tools using mixed media, porcelain with bright lustres, with woven wire and
wood.’
porcelain. This delicate material in conjunction with heavier materials such as woven wire and carved
wood bring together a collection of unusual objects with textures arising out of exploring mixing seeds
and dried pulses such as fennel seeds, rice and dried peas into the clay and layering bright lustres of
gold and bronze glaze on top.
Her work has won several awards and is held in many private collections.
‘We use utensils at least three times a day, yet we rarely think of how they came into being in terms of
shape size and materials they are made of, we were eating with our hands up to the Middle Ages, the
development of the eating utensil is an interesting story. Coastal peoples had access to an abundance
of shells; a stick fastened to the shell allowed for a multipurpose tool, farmers used the hollow horns of
sheep and goats as a vessel for liquid thus began the development of the spoon.
The pieces I create serve as forms of personal narrative, from memories of a rural upbringing, a
collection of sculptural tools using mixed media, porcelain with bright lustres, with woven wire and
wood.’