Bridget Fairbank makes pottery, installation art, and orchestrates happenings - all of which aim for the re-imagining of everyday actions and relations. Her items act sometimes as objects of irony, sometimes as objects of intimacy and sometimes as a means to an educational end. In this case the exhibition Ceramic Botanica: A Constant and Misguided Optimism does all three. The handcrafted object is now the subversive object.