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Parent, carer, lover, baby – nobody might look at these works and never find themselves grappling with their feelings, feeling for the grief, struggling and loss endured by harmless folks. The title of Wilkes’s work, which was made a decade ago, is a reference to Possil Pottery, the 19th-century Glasgow company Art News that created some of the finest porcelain in Britain. Untitled options artefacts – bits of jugs, old kilns and bottles – excavated in 2010. Yet, for all this, in its visualisation of human suffering, Wilkes’s work couldn’t feel extra quick or universal.

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