….contained within…artworks of remarkable dexterity…intrigue…and…imagination…ideas are wedged {pushed/squeezed/kneaded/thwacked}…ideas intermingled and cavort…like the soft plasticity of the clay and molten glass that makes them… these artists embrace the possibility inherent in their materials…while public discourse revolves around forms of artificial intelligence…it is essential to be grounded… to push appendages deep into wet clay and to feel the sensorial connection with the matter{s} of the world…oozing up and around the fingertips…or…feeling the burning heat of the glass furnace beating on your brow…drying your skin before the embodied reaction of perspiration cools down the surface of the skin… eyes squinting in the day-glow orange outpouring of illumination…in this selection of works…visitors will find artefacts…and thoughts made manifest…that oscillate between the fields of art…and…of…design…large gold and clay tentacles reaching out from the ground…waving and spiralling furiously as they do so…glazes which have abandoned solidity to drip and gloop outwards…blocks that caress…hold…and…bodily and/ or architecturally bulge into each other…reflections mirror back and forth creating new meaning in an endless feedback looping’s…multiple component assemblages creating cross-networked narratives jostling for attention…objects designed for our familial spaces…modular…crafted…skilled…and all timely reflections of the materiality of the anthropocene…all powerful visual and material articulations of our place in the world…and…in this moment…works that act as dynamic metamorphoses…transformations of…and…translations of meaning…material…and our understanding of the world...these artist/designers/makers…are inaugural navigators of a new format of royal college of art education…thinking as making…writing as practice…thinking through stuff…navigating {im}material cultures… learnings ambitious…and…densely wedged {pushed/squeezed/kneaded/thwacked}…