One of four works for the inaugural exhibition Making Place Matter, marking the grand opening of the Clay Studio’s new South Kensington building opening in April 2022. Linea Stack reflects Hatch’s personal and cultural heritage and honors the concept of inheritance. Comprised of 68 hand-cast hexagonal porcelain blocks, Linea Stack is a new approach to deconstruction and cultural fusion of pattern and the collective histories they represent.

Curator Elizabeth Essner says of Linea Stack:

“Hatch has continually transformed the plate's intimate scale into the monumental, an active assertion of taking up space, both literally and figuratively. Linea Stack moves this into wholly new sculptural territory, moving off the wall into three-dimensions. This sculptural leap takes up new artistic territory as Hatch merges the snakeskin – and its transformational symbolism – with the ancestral influence of her grandmother’s floral. The allure of golden luster coats the edges of the hexagonal brick assemblage, further asserting its sculptural presence while nodding to the gold-tipped border of a porcelain plate.“

Year: 2021

Materials: 68 hand-cast porcelain hexagonal bricks, hand-painted underglaze, glaze and 22k gold luster

Dimensions: 35h x 52w x 12.5d inches