Posts Tagged ‘feministceramics’
A Nasty Piece of Work
A Nasty Piece of Work We’re Women! 2021 Version 1, 38 diam x 16 high cm The bowl ‘We’re Women,’ featured in this post, is currently showing in ‘Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces,’ @u_jazdowski Castle, Warsaw, until Oct 1st 2023 An earlier version of this piece, a fired clay ‘sketch,’ (private collection,) will also be on show…
Read MoreFeminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 3
Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 3 Gender – Introduction The featured pot, Cirucs Acts, is one of 23 pots which, along with 2 huge drawings, and 3 videos are on show at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, one of Poland’s most prestigious galleries. This my first ever solo show outside the UK. The…
Read MoreFeminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 2
Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – part 2 Introduction The featured pot, Pimp State, is one of 23 pots which, along with 2 huge drawings, and 3 videos are on show at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, one of Poland’s most prestigious galleries. This my first ever solo show outside the UK. The…
Read MoreFeminist Satire, No Safe Spaces
Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces Opening Night Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, July 7th 2023. Here are a couple of favourite photos from the opening. It is a huge honour to be showing my pots in such a prestigious museum and in such an art-serious city like Warsaw. I owe thanks to…
Read MoreNo Safe Spaces! Feminist Satire
No Safe Spaces! Feminist Satire – part 1 Introduction The featured pot, photographed with me, is Postcard from the Caliphate, 2017. It is one of 23 pots and 2 huge drawings that were packed into giant crates and taken to Warsaw, last week. Yesterday they arrived at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland’s most…
Read MoreFind the Witch!
Find the Witch! About the pot Find the Witch! is based on my many experiences of having pots either removed from exhibition or hidden, and having invitations to speak or perform revoked. This is sometimes referred to as being ‘cancelled.’ It is one of what will be a new series of pots called, ‘The Exploits…
Read MoreLegal Action – Result!
Legal Action – Result! I’m delighted.. I’m delighted with the outcome of my legal action against the Craft Potter’s Association and University of the Arts London. You can read the background to the case here. I’m hugely grateful to Levin’s who represented me and they provide the following statement on my behalf: Statement from Levin’s…
Read MoreTalk 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…
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