Trapped in Ceramics is a body of glazed ceramic heads and skulls by Gawie Joubert a sustained study in how clay holds, distorts, and surrenders anatomical form.

The title points in two directions: the figure caught inside the ceramic surface, and the form itself constrained by the behaviour of the material its shrinkage, slumping, and unpredictable response to firing. Joubert builds facial and cranial forms in clay, then uses glaze to sharpen or soften what the clay has recorded, with surfaces ranging from matte and bone-like to fluid and glassy. Process is left visible; the kiln's interventions are kept rather than corrected.