Paul Astbury Artist © 2020

'Astbury began to explore the symbolic properties of wet clay in the early 1990s. Poised between raw clay and fired object, the works demonstrated that clay was just a medium, which might become something else as readily as a piece of ceramic.'
Laura Breen
Ceramics and the Museum, 2019


‘Astbury’s work anticipated the post-industrial climate in which we now live. Instead of seeing industry as the progressive future, he projected it backwards into the paleontological past’
Mark Del Vecchio
Postmodern Ceramics


'[Paul Astbury] had operated these long years as a sculptor but is categorised as a ceramicist...He deserves a big cheer for bravery in the defiance of categories.'
Tanya Harrod
The Spectator


'Astbury is unique in British sculpture and ceramics. His approach to material concept and form is profound and intellectually integrated, and also demonstrates an almost brutal economy of means'
Garth Clark
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics