Kate Henry works from her studio in Brighton and has combined ceramics with a career as a chef for many years. Over time food has given way to clay.

Kate is interested in what existed before the story we tell about ourselves — before the name, before the history, before the carefully curated self we carry through the world. Her work begins here; in the quiet space beneath that constructed identity, where something luminous awaits.

Kate works mainly in single fired, unglazed porcelain — a material that insists on honesty. It holds the mark of the hand and the breath of the kiln, its skin unmasked by glaze. What you see is a single moment the fire has turned to stone.

Kate's sculptural practice explores the tension between our human identities — the roles, the wounds, the armour we build — and the boundless consciousness that underlies it all. Each vessel is an invitation to remember our true nature; to allow the constructed self to soften, if only for a moment, and feel what has always been there.