Jennifer Lucy Allan

'An engrossing history of the deep connection between humans and clay' – Katherine May, author of Enchantment 'Fascinating and powerful' – Brian Eno Clay: A Human History is baked into our culture: we have been taking handfuls of earth and forming them into their own image since our history began. In Clay: A Human History, Jennifer Lucy Allan navigates the...

'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' - Brian Eno 'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' - John Higgs 'A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music' - Cosey Fanni Tutti What does the foghorn sound like? It sounds...

Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries, and museums. Every time we make something with clay, we engage with the timelines that are in the material itself, whether it was dug from a clifftop, riverbed, or pit. In firing what we make, we bestow the material with function, meaning, or feeling,...