Martine Jackson has spent over two decades, not unlike many master ceramic artists, versing herself in the language of clay; radically experimenting, wielding the material to its limits, elongating it further and further towards the sky, imbuing it with more and more of her own expression — for ceramic sculptures represent the culmination of a beautiful, long-standing conversation between the artist and the medium of clay. Martine Jackson has wrestled through the maze of ceramic technique, of external influence, and emerges as one of South Africa’s most exciting contemporary ceramic voices; birthing monumental, hand-built sculptures that resemble ancient, time-worn landscapes.