Denise Hall: Clay art lifts earth to new heights

Q&A: Darren Francis Cassidy

Clay is abundant, cheap and adaptable and the earliest recorded evidence of its usage dates back to the late Palaeolithic period in central and western Europe.

There is early evidence of experimentation with clay at a site known as Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic where figurines made of clay mixed with crushed mammoth bones were discovered.