RE ENTRY is a collection of imagined sky rockets from other planets materialised on Planet Earth. The work is hand-built from clay, biscuit-fired, then Raku-glazed and fired to 1,000 degrees centigrade. The intense elemental Raku process involves lifting the red hot pieces from the kiln, plunging them into sawdust, and finally submerging them in cold water; it echoes the narrative.

Molten matter, smoke, flames, steam. Burnt blistered rockets. Glinting, metallic, space-probes, battered, dark and dangerous. Gleaming spaceships and sputniks. Each piece with its own mysterious story. All arrived from unknown places ...

Morag MacInnes

RE ENTRY is a collection of imagined sky rockets from other planets materialised on Planet Earth. The work is hand-built from clay, biscuit-fired, then Raku-glazed and fired to 1,000 degrees centigrade. The intense elemental Raku process involves lifting the red hot pieces from the kiln, plunging them into sawdust, and finally submerging them in cold water; it echoes the narrative.

Molten matter, smoke, flames, steam. Burnt blistered rockets. Glinting, metallic, space-probes, battered, dark and dangerous. Gleaming spaceships and sputniks. Each piece with its own mysterious story. All arrived from unknown places ...

Morag MacInnes

RE ENTRY is a collection of imagined sky rockets from other planets materialised on Planet Earth. The work is hand-built from clay, biscuit-fired, then Raku-glazed and fired to 1,000 degrees centigrade. The intense elemental Raku process involves lifting the red hot pieces from the kiln, plunging them into sawdust, and finally submerging them in cold water; it echoes the narrative.

Molten matter, smoke, flames, steam. Burnt blistered rockets. Glinting, metallic, space-probes, battered, dark and dangerous. Gleaming spaceships and sputniks. Each piece with its own mysterious story. All arrived from unknown places ...

Morag MacInnes

It's hard to know just what it is that certain artists have that makes you so happy in the presence of their work. Maybe it is just me but the simple delight, the verge of a chuckle that Morag's dogs bring me can lift the dourest day and fill my heart with fun. Maybe it's the wit, the glorious crazed unconventionality of them, underpinned by a consummate skill and a pleasing off beat genius, that does it.

You can learn to love them and they are much more hygienic and cheaper to run than a regular dog.

Chris Stewart
(author of Driving Over Lemons and other books).

Yes! This is the essence of DOG, I yelped to myself when I first saw a Morag dog. I was taken aback, but these dogs are not just dogs. These are creatures from a deeper world where raw emotion rules and where we are who we really are.

I have two at home and we talk.
I now realize they are about you and me.

Charles Landry
(Consultant and author The Creative City)

Morag MacInnes's ceramic dogs portray human animalistic characters as much as they represent dogginess. They smile, they bare their teeth, they turn their heads upside down but what do they mean by it? Behind it all they are moved by raw animal drives. They have another agenda, a malevolence.

Choose your dog carefully.
You think you have their number, think you recognise the character, but that is only the surface. Don't turn your back on them.

Boyd and Evans
Artists

Morag Macinnes does what I thought would be impossible, and that is make ceramic plates both funny and profound at the same time. It is a tough one to pull off, and gives her work its unique quality.

Martin Parr
Photographer

The Lottery Series. When I visited Mexico in 2005 I was intrigued by the visual lottery tickets on sale.

You buy a symbolic image with your number - a mermaid, a skull, a snake, etc. This inspired for me a whole series of plates and platters.

At first, using a grid system I chose random images often of objects with double meanings or suggestions. Then I made thematic plates - hair styles, transport, food, love, death.

I have had such fun making them and new themes are always cropping up.

Morag MacInnes

The Domestic Series of plates has been a very fruitful area for me to explore. Influenced by the simplicity of Greek vase painting I have explored ordinary everyday tasks. The women in the series are absolutely loving doing things like hoovering, pegging out the washing or walking the dog. Carpe diem. As good a subject for plates as any.

Morag MacInnes

Myths and Narrative. I am fascinated by images that have always been and re-occur in many forms. Mermaids for example. All those layers of symbolism. I have made mermaids sing, catch and eat fish and make busy calls on their shell phones. Then there are stories to play with. Let's have Eve bowling apples in Eden and then making apple pie. Let's have eternal nymphs cavorting in the waves.

Morag MacInnes

Chests and towers. The chests and towers are exploring the idea of mysteries and secrets. They do not open in any way.

Morag MacInnes

Organic forms. The organic forms are about evolutions and wire has been incorporated in some pieces ...

Morag MacInnes