February Dark and Cold

Large decorated vase

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…

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Christine Keeler

Flask shaped, decorated ceramic pot

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…

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Street Exit

Will feature in my exhibition in Northleach at The Old Prison

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…

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Continental Brexit

Woman in a red tee shirt holding a vase

Continental Brexit, 2018 Continental Brexit, 2018 Private Collection 30h x 27w cm Materials Handbuilt pot, decorated in coloured slips both inside and out. Fired, smashed, and rebuilt with gaps so the internal imagery is visible. Clear glazed, with bright pink aluminium leaf edging the gaps to frame the internal imagery. How it began Every so…

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No Safe Spaces! Feminist Satire

Satire Feminist Woman Big-pot Decorated

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…

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Remembering Atefeh – acquired by museum

decorated vase

‘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…

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Ceramic 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…

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