Vessel continues at Cob Gallery - a selection of new ceramic paintings by American artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed. Anchored squarely in the tradition of painting, these wall-hanging works are composed of home-mixed clay bodies and glazes, including materials dug up near the artist’s home in North Carolina, a locality known for its rich clay history. The intimately scaled works depict human, animal and inanimate subjects in tenderly dramatic vignettes. With pathos and humour, they reveal fragments of wider narratives while focusing on moments of existential disquiet, incidental poignancy or confounding delight. McNamee-Tweed’s current body of work addresses themes including the margins of human civilization, the natural world and everyday objects, while maintaining a self-reflexive attitude to the tradition of image- and object-making. Some of the stoneware slabs in ‘Vessel’ depict ceramic vases with scenes rendered upon them: a mise-en-abyme effect referencing the three-dimensionality most commonly associated with ceramics. McNamee-Tweed also regularly takes the studio itself as a subject: walls and tabletops filled with papers, tools and artworks-in-progress, the objects and images accumulating in candid conversation. Kevin McNamee-Tweed Vessel Until 01 October In Water (Flowers and Horizon), 2022, Glazed ceramic, 8.5 x 7 in Globe Vase, 2022, Glazed ceramic, 6 x 4.5 in Studio Accumulation (Vessels), 2022, Glazed ceramic, 8.25 x 7 in Banks Interior, 2022, Glazed ceramic, 8.25 x 6.75 Studio Accumulation (Vessels), 2022, Glazed ceramic, 8.25 x 7.5 in @cottontweed #kevinmcnameetweed #cobgallery #ceramics #ceramicpainting