Katherine Glenday lives and works in her Kalk Bay studio (Cape Town) and exhibits all around the world. The material, imaginary, and interpersonal resonances of porcelain have remained central to Glenday’s practice since the early 1980s. Formally and conceptually emphasising the porousness of borders and skins, the artist’s vessels defy categorisation. They extend into the most translucent edges of what we think porcelain should be able to do and are continuously coming into being in the blur between “the sacred” and the kitchen sink – both impossibly perfect and always just about to shatter. These clayworks resound; they make sound tangible, stretched like a tympanic membrane. From 2006 to 2021, Glenday participated in an annual residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (between the Western Cape in South Africa and Poppiano in Italy). Her solo exhibitions have been housed in Cape Town, Johannesburg, New York, and London.