The first exhibition of Philip Eglin with Canopy Collections, Bucket List surveys the vessel forms that the artist has explored over the past three decades: jugs and handled jars, large chargers, and straight-sided Buckets. It presents ceramics as a site of narrative, humour and critical reflection, and affirms Eglin’s position as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British ceramics.

Philip Eglin’s work moves between sincerity and satire. Collage-like surfaces draw on a deliberately eclectic range of sources: art history and ceramic tradition sit alongside references to consumer culture, sport, religion and contemporary morality. Pieces carry fragments of text borrowed from advertising, graffiti or everyday speech, while sketch-like figures range from priests and Madonnas to sex workers and sports stars. His work holds opposites in tension: the ancient and the modern, the sacred and the profane, the sophisticated and the crude.