Angela Hogg makes constructed objects from discarded ceramics that

describe a reflection on class, family and the creative impulse. Oscillating

between good and bad ‘taste’ and all that lies between. They trace the borders

of an archaic impulse to display objects, particularly our unthinking, but

elemental reflex to make and display representations of animals - as

indifferently modelled jokes, mass produced shelf filler, ‘gifts’ and sentimental

memos of places visited. These works are a form of autoethnographic practice

for the artist, treating disposable mass produced ceramics as units of

signification of formative environments, both emotional and physical. They are

a reconstruction of cultural ‘trash’ to form alternative ideas around display,

beauty, taste and meaning.

Angela Hogg is an artist and educator living and working in London.