A new exhibition at Upright Gallery in Edinburgh brings together two Edinburgh-based artists, ceramicist Hazel Frost and printmaker Kim Minuti.

Most of Hazel Frost’s hand-built ceramics are wheel-thrown, with the exception of those created under the restrictions of lockdown being coil-built – the slower process being one she enjoyed. With both techniques she seeks to create balanced vessels, using several clay bodies, from porcelain to foraged clay, creating pieces that are varied but altogether cohesive. She draws on an exploration of slow geological deep time, echoing the movements of the earth that create the clay that she works – together with exploring Scottish landscapes and natural forms.

Kim Minuti is interested in the inconsequential, insignificant details in the spaces between our urban and natural environments, and how these two worlds co-exist and collide. She encourages us to take note of the small things in the places that surround and shape us, as seen through a printmaking lens, with as fluid practice that’s open to chance and a sense of narrative forms from the moment of transfer to paper.

Vital to her work’s integrity is its relationship to our environment and nature: sea pebbles shaped by the tide have inspired this new range of work, and found, displaced items are printed alongside amorphous, opaque and translucent shapes of shifting colour, creating a visual tension.