I’m Narique Sangster, a Cape Town-based, self-taught ceramicist working exclusively with handbuilding techniques.
My work dotes on freedom and its fruits: intuition, love, transformation, fulfilment, creation and relief. Along the same lines, I am enamoured by meaninglessness.
I work exclusively with clay handbuilding techniques and freestyle, following what emerges in the moment. This gives me the joy of watching the unfamiliar, uncomfortable or inconsequential materialise until I find myself surprised.
I’m tired of talking about the many ways in which my identity as a Cape Coloured woman lives in my art practice. I find kinship in hip hop and its fifth element, knowledge of self, and in the multiverses of Black science fiction and fantasy writers, where identity, belonging and possibility can be imagined beyond bloodline.
Sci-fi and fantasy motifs are a recurring visual theme in my work, alongside intentional patterns that repeat and evolve across pieces.
My recurring pattern etched into the clay is named Source Code. It holds information that is transmitted despite meaning, translation or understanding.