This new series by Clink Street Ceramics explores the space, time, and landscape of Dungeness on the Kent Coast. As Britain’s only desert, I found parallels between Dungeness and Las Vegas in the layout and architecture of this special place. This series of ceramic vessels documents my field research visits to Dungeness with landscape photographer Matthew Lovett during the spring of 2026. As a psychogeographic endeavor, we walked through the landscape documenting what we found through drawings and photography. Using both digital and film cameras, we took a “point and shoot” approach, embracing the “as found” aesthetic. My research took me immediately to the seminal work “Learning from Las Vegas” by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, from, 1972. Venturi & Scott Brown produced this foundational architectural theory text that challenged modernism, by celebrating the commercial vernacular and car-centric symbolism of the Las Vegas Strip. The similarities are not immediately obvious, but on closer inspection, re-reading this text unlocked deeper meanings in the way that Dungeness connects ideas of ownership, habitation, time, landscape, and nature. This series is my Learning from Dungeness 1972.

Each piece includes on-location photography by landscape photographer Matthew Lovett, photos by Clink Street Ceramics using a Leica Mini Zoom 35mm Film camera from 1993, as well as drawings and notes, applied via ceramic in-glaze transfers.

Clay: Staffordshire Stoneware, blue turquoise yellow glaze, ceramic in-glaze transfers.

Photo Credit: MATTHEW LOVETT & CLINK STREET CERAMICS