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Talk at the Tate
I took part in an ‘art chat’ at Tate Modern on Friday as part of their monthly Tate Lates series. This one was called ‘The L Word’ and the whole evening was a celebration of ‘Queer’ culture – or Lesbian and Gay as I would call it. That would be inaccurate though since, in ‘queer’…
Read MoreRemembering Atefeh – Museum Acquisition
‘Remembering Atefeh,’ 2013, easily my most photographed and probably mostly widely shown pot, has been acquired by the Women’s Art Collection at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. This is biggest collection of art by women in Europe and one of the major collections of feminist art. It was started in the early 1990s and has slowly…
Read MoreA Woman’s Right to Choose
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of the United States, (SCOTUS,) launch the most ferocious attack on women’s reproductive rights in the US for decades. Or that is how it seems anyway. There has been a provisional vote. The overturning of Roe vs Wade, which enshrines in law the rights of women in the US…
Read MoreCeramic Art London, 2022
Ceramic Art London, (CAL,) 2022, organised by the Craft Potter’s Association, (CPA,) at Central St. Martin’s, (CSM,) is now in full swing – or as full as it can be without me, that is. My dispute with the CPA This is the story so far, along with a short progress report. The CPA banned me…
Read MoreFired! From Ceramic Art London, 2022
Fired! From Ceramic Art London, 2022 It all seemed to be going so well. The contract for this year was renewed, my lecture – about my project with women@thewell – updated, since it was originally planned for CAL 2020, and then came the phone call from the director of the Craft Potters Association, (CPA,) to…
Read MoreCeramic Art London 2022 – I have been banned from this event.
Ceramic Art London – I’ve been disinvited from this event PLEASE SEE LATEST POST Ceramic Art London, (CAL,) April 8th, 9th and 10th, 2022. Central St. Martins, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, N1C 4AA I will be giving one of the Claytalks lectures on Sunday April 10th, 1-2pm Some of the pots from ‘And the…
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