Rosamund Coady and Reed Wilson join forces in the exhibition Layers at Town House, in Fournier Street, Spitalfields A ceramicist and an artist using ordinary objects to examine the world around them. Each artist works intensely with her chosen medium building in layers and then re-working until the finished piece is almost sculptural in quality. In so doing they redefine ordinary things, so that we look at them anew.
Rosamund Coady is a ceramicist who’s more of an artist taking simple ideas then reformulating them on a 3 dimensional surface, with glazes her paint. Glazes are central to her practice and she mixes them instinctively, sometimes saving leftover glazes then mixing them together to create what she terms ‘wild glazing’ that leads her in unknown and unpredictable directions.
Reed Wilson also starts ‘wildly’: painting everything all at once, before painstakingly deconstructing it, scraping back and repainting many times until eventually the components come together to create a deceptively simple whole again.
Both artists trained at Camberwell at the same time, although they were unaware of that until they met at the Town House Open exhibition in 2022. Each was drawn to the others’ work and Layers is the result…