Posts Tagged ‘slabware’
The 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…
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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…
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Feminist Jugs – Sink the Sex Trade! Feminist Jugs I love this picture of the my two new sgraffito ware jugs, photographed together, leading the fleet. Paired up like this seems to inject energy – they could almost be sailing. I’m particularly delighted with the way the handles look. They’re in the shop now. Go…
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…
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