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SINK Ceramics

The life of a ceramic vessel

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John and Sally McKenna
Oct 16, 2025
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Sinead Axworthy, SINK

“There is a Japanese way of thinking that looks on a piece of ceramic without food as unfinished.” wrote the great chef Tetsuya Wakuda.

“But put some food on it, and the piece has a life, a reason to be.”

Wakuda was writing about his potter, Mitsuo Shoji. But he might have been writing about the pottery of Sinead Axworthy, of SINK stu…

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