LAB | TSFT The Search for Truth
This project is inspired by a now dormant home laboratory space belonging to Danny’s Dad (Arthur Callaghan). His room and its contents provide the starting
point and source material for the creation of an eclectic capsule collection of ceramic work. The lab currently exists in a state of suspension – Marie Celeste like – time seems frozen, yet life persists. Flasks and petri dishes nurture unseen growth, spiders weave their webs as dust gathers on equipment and surfaces. It is deeply personal – a tribute to Danny’s father and his life-long research activities in relation to Conidiobolus, a genus of fungi. It also celebrates a shared passion – the search for truth through scientific and artistic endeavour.
See Danny’s work, along with the rest of the University of Staffordshire MA Ceramics cohort, in Space F on the Spode Works Site from 6 September to 19 October 2025.