The aim of the research was to both to deepen the study of the division of space/mass within the context of both overt and covert coloured surface in ceramic vessel forms, and to research the deconstruction of the wall element of vessels, considering edge, mass, volume, vertical, and separating the outside surface from the inside, generating a new contained space. Overall the significance of both aims was to confound the traditional perception of ceramic containers as utilitarian objects and present them in series as conceptual investigations of containing, and interacting with, space.

Sound and Silence resulted in a series of six works, each consisting of two ceramic rings of cylindrical or conic section with particular surfaces made reflective through the application of platinum leaf. These were bonded to thick clear glass discs, coloured through the application of acrylic paint to their lower surfaces. This significantly extended the normal ceramic colour spectrum and had the effect of colouring the glass from within rather than applied, with the bonded ceramic surface on top of it appearing to float above it. The decorative qualities were therefore intrinsic to the work, the colour being used to define volumes, demarcate surfaces and make space visible.

Alongside the investigation of colour as created through glass, ceramic and paint materials, the basic formal structure, mathematical progressions and 'poetic geometry' were explored through a suite of drawings and scale model-making, and the ceramic works developed earlier research in mould design and the techniques of hand pressing and guided profiling.

The exhibition was reviewed in Crafts, Ceramic Review and the German journal Keramik and work was purchased for a private collection.