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Holly Wheatcroft’s ceramic collages appropriate and remix art historical references through hand built clay shapes and a painterly use of glazes. Colour, shape and pattern are layered in order to present a collapsed version of the artist’s response to historical and contemporary artistic practices. With a focus on the genre of still life, Wheatcroft’s collages are a textural interplay of traditional themes fused with popular culture. The artist uses fragments of painted clay in response to the enduring role of pottery as a medium of storytelling and where history and myth are combined, pulled apart, and reassembled into new narratives.