Posts Tagged ‘feministceramics’
How to Eat a Pomegranate, (2008)
How to Eat a Pomegranate, (2008) How to East A Pomegranate, 2008, 82h x 40w cm, Private Collection. Francis Kyle Gallery It is a memory of eating pomegranates with friends in Iran one Christmas, probably 2005. I am thinking a good deal about Iran now About the pot and the exhibition The pot pictured here…
Read MoreThe World Service, 1996
The World Service – a ceramic tea set The World Service was a seven piece ceramic tea set, made in 1996, the year after the Century Plant – Agave Americana – in the Oxford Botanic Gardens collection, flowered. It is, perhaps, a once in a generation event but this one had not flowered for close…
Read MoreFree Speech
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 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 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…
Read MoreVice and Virtue: the artists
Vice and Virtue: the artists Vice and Virtue is a mixed media exhibition by six artists who respond in substantially different ways to the rising religiosity of contemporary social justice movements. Much of the work was made specifically for the exhibition which continues until July 26th at Ruup & Form. This posts introduces the artists…
Read MoreEverygender
Everygender, the Jugs Everygender’s Vision, (top right) The Avenging Vessel, (bottom left) both jugs 43×32 (incl handle,) x 27 cm Photo: Sylvain Deleu Everygender, comprised of four jugs, tells a pictorial story of my expulsion from Ceramic Art London in 2022 based on the Medieval Morality Play, ‘Everyman.’ Everyman, (1530) ‘Everyman’ is thought to have…
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