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Free Speech Not In Public ‘We are committed, of course, to freedom of speech, But not if you’re speaking in public.’ 2024 Slipware Plate, 26cm diam Private Collection photo: @sylvaindeleuphotographer Now we know how dangerous it can be to speak your mind in public. Potentially lethal. Murder on Campus Even calling the murder, 10 days…
Read MoreFor the Love of Reading
For the Love of Reading Introduction I was prompted to make the pot by a very obscure moment, significant at the time and probably for a long time for those concerned but, as a social story, in these volatile times, it passed into forgotten space quite quickly. Translating Poetry Joe Biden’s inauguration, 2021, a young…
Read MoreFebruary Dark and Cold
February Dark and Cold, 2019 Meeting Gemma, (not her real name) Gemma is a very young woman – a girl when we first encounter her – 15 years old, being sold for sex on the street in Kings Cross, London. She is obviously in need of shelter on a night such as this. Hostels are…
Read MoreChristine Keeler
Christine Keeler: An Uncertain Pilgrim, 2019 Introduction Christine Keeler briefly became an international celebrity in the early 1960s. She came to prominence because she was being sexually exploited some very powerful men. The trafficker, as he would now be known, that is the man who made her available for sex to these men who were…
Read MoreBefore Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas
Before Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas Penguin UK 1994 Before Night Falls is a memoir by the Cuban poet, playwright and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas, (1943-1990,) a gay man, living under the Castro regime. He was born in 1943 when Battista was still in power but Castro took over when he was a teenager by which…
Read MoreStreet Exit
Street Exit, 2019 Street Exit, 2019 60h x 28w cm photo: Sylvain Deleu From: ‘And the Door Opened,’ 2019-23 Street Exit is another of the pots that will be displayed in: Nature & Solitude, March 6th-8th, The Old Prison, Northleach, Gloucestershire, GL54 3JH. The Images on the Pot The images on the outside of the…
Read MoreWootton, Misty Winter Sunset
Wootton, Misty Winter Sunset, 2018 Wootton, Misty Winter Sunset 55 h x 30 w cm Private Collection photo: Sylvain Deleu Exhibited and sold through Zueleika Gallery, 2018 from, ‘The Wootton Pots,’ I made the Wootton Pots shortly after my mother died, in 2016, and I wasn’t sure if this landscape, where I grew up, would…
Read MoreNature & Solitude
Nature & Solitude, 2025 This is a 3-day display of my work which will show at The Old Prison, Fosse Way, Northleach, GL54 3JH from Thursday-Saturday, March 6th-8th, 2025. Reviving the Salon This is the second of my ‘salon series’ started by Frances Bates at her house in Wootton by Woodstock, in 2024. The salons…
Read MoreVanity of the Bonfires
Vanity of the Bonfires Romola George Eliot’s ‘Romola,’ set in Florence in the 1490s, but written in England in 1862, presents a society where public discourse, people’s everyday lives – their social lives in particular – and street politics were strikingly similar to our own. The public mood was volatile. The Medicis had been expelled…
Read More2 Plus 2 Equals 5
2 Plus 2 Equals 5 Exploring Censorship in Art, 19202-20202 2 Plus 2 Equals 5 is the title of an exhibition at Not for Sale Gallery in Hackney Wick. The title is a reference to George Orwell’s use of the concept in 1984. ‘The Party’ adopts it as a fundamental tenet of belief to accustomise…
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