Posts Tagged ‘slipwarepottery’
No 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 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…
Read MoreCeramic 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…
Read MoreFired! From Ceramic Art London, 2022
Fired! From Ceramic Art London, 2022 It all seemed to be going so well. The contract for this year was renewed, my lecture – about my project with women@thewell – updated, since it was originally planned for CAL 2020, and then came the phone call from the director of the Craft Potters Association, (CPA,) to…
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