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The surprising and unlikely collaboration between Justin Hibbs and Anna Siverton came only by chance and was purely circumstancial.  Hibbs had made a modernist sculpture serving as a shelving unit with artist Rosalind Davis, which was already a collaboration in itself.  This scultpture was installed in the gallery home space of Ramsgate. Porcelains of Anna Silverton were set on its mirroring shelves.  The visual relationship was instant.  Justin Hibbs is a hard edge constructivist whose art unashamedly claims a philosophical approach to collaborative practices.  Anna Silverton is a ceramic artist whose aim is to reach the purest, most refined lines from the finest grain of porcelain, and defy gravity, turning volumes into waves of space.  Until then, no obvious hint of a collaboration would have come to mind between one who is a painter, sculptor, installation artist, and composer, Justin Hibbs, and Anna Silverton, a dedicated and skilful handler of the potters wheel, whose art, traditionally, would not have rubbed shoulders with concrete and conceptual art. 

But it did.