Posts Tagged ‘slipwarepottery’
Continental Brexit
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…
Read MoreColour Studies – Part one
Colour Studies Colour Studies – Part 1 This post is an introduction to the formal concerns of painting with slips on pots. By ‘painting,’ I mean the sort I learnt at art school in the early 1980s which evolved mainly from post Renaissance, Western European art. This starts the discussion of how that is done…
Read MoreThe Garden Vases
The Garden Vases, 2024 The Garden series, 2024 Will show at Collect24 with Ruup & Form Somerset House, Feb 28/9 pvs, Mar 1-3 public. Tickets via Collect24 Garden series has grown out of my life long love of gardens which I probably got from my mother and grandmother. It is that sense of an ‘in…
Read MorePimp State
Pimp State, 2021 Introduction Pimp State is both a bowl and poster. It is a dystopian feminist satire on what I imagine the State would look like under the ‘full decrim’ regime. ‘Full Decriminalisation’ refers to a proposed model of legal reform that seeks to decriminalise men who pay for sex along with all third…
Read MoreA 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…
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