Book a Tutorial or Training session

Book A Tutorial or Training Session and learn more about an area of ceramic or other art practice of your choice.

Practical:

1. painting in slip on pots –  vary your sgraffito techniques, improve your understanding of colour and how it works visually.
2. Kinstugi/faux kintsugi – learn more about how pots break and how to rebuild them, or use the shards expressively. We can study true kintsugi, learn about museum mending, and consider other ways of working.

Theory or history

My specialist areas include:

• Feminism, including activist feminism and how it can be brought into your ceramic practice,
• Feminsm and visual art/craft
• freedom of expression and art’s relationship with Democracy. 
• Gender theory or Gender critical? What does it all mean anyway? And what, if any, is its connection with feminism?
• Art and Activism, how to bring get your political or social activism working together with your art.

I have been making pots and imagery that deal with men’s violence towards women and girls since 1985 and have considerable expertise in this area. I completed a practice based PhD in 2007 which involved making five, giant sized pots, and a number of smaller ones, responding to women’s accounts of surviving sexual violence.

I co-authored The Pot Book, (Phaidon, 2011,) with Edmund de Waal and published ‘Subversive Ceramics,‘ (Bloomsbury, 2016,) as well as writing numerous articles for Ceramic Review and various academic publications.

I can advise and direct in your research and study in any of these areas.