My practice is currently centered around the concept of the "Technofossil"; objects manufactured specifically for human use, to facilitate or enhance contemporary existence, and having outlasted their useful function, are thoughtlessly discarded into the environment.

Like fossils, these objects will become embedded in currently forming geological strata leaving traces of themselves.
 Geologists have already used these objects to propose a name for our era, calling it the "Anthropocene" (trans. the human epoch).


In the process of making the work I am able to decontextualize these objects and subvert their function by casting; reproducing sections in clay, then applying them to the surface of my hand-built forms.

The sculptures themselves are an amalgamation of the familiar and unfamiliar.

Once produced, my ceramic creations become petrified (an anticipation of our story told in rock), a vision or premonition serving as a message to a future beyond our knowledge. Inert objects in the environment; impermeable, persistent, permanent, outliving me to tell a story of our failed relationship with our Earth. A warning of a post-apocalyptic world where, through human activity, life on earth has vanished and all that remains are enigmatic ghostly traces of our long-gone 'civilisation'.

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Exhibitions:

Group Exhibition: 2020 North west Graduate show. AIR Gallery, Altrincham 28th May - 19th June (2021) 

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Online Group Exhibition: Shortlisted for the Artsthread / i-D global Design graduate show.

21st August to 15th of September (2020) 

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Online Group Exhibition: ‘No Show’ Bath spa University School of Art Degree show 26th June – 8th June (2020-2021)

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Group Exhibition: 'illusive'  Online exhibition. 6th July - 13th July  (2020)

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Group Exhibition: 'Into the blue'  Walcot Chapel. 16th - 19th May (2019)

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Group Exhibition:  Boston College, May15th –August 18th (2017)

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Group exhibition: Blackfrairs Thearte and Arts centre. (November 20th –December 22nd (2016)

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Group exhibition: Frampton Marsh Nature Reserve, RSPB. June 28th -September 12th (2016)

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Group Exhibition: Fydell House Centre. May 12th - May 16th (2016)

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awards: 

Potclays graduate award (2020)

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Contact.

Email: Saffyasummefield@hotmail.co.uk

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Instagram: @non_tech_saffy

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