Peter Bodenham

Peter Bodenham’s ceramic vessels and sculptural forms explore material as both cultural and geological witness. The work examines an archaeology of the Anthropocene, tracing how objects and surfaces carry environmental histories, cultural narratives, and human interventions over time. Using wheel-throwing, extrusion, handbuilding, and printing processes, Bodenham fuses reclaimed ceramic shards into vessels and assemblages.

Many source materials are collected along the shoreline of West Wales, where discarded objects, plastics, and ceramic fragments are shaped by tides and erosion. For Bodenham, these fragments are not remnants of loss but generative matter, holding stories of use, breakage, and renewal within an ongoing material lifecycle.