Posts Tagged ‘studiopottery’
February Dark and Cold
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: 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, 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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Wootton, Misty Winter Sunset, 2018 Wootton, Misty Winter Sunset 55 h x 30 w cm Private Collection photo: Sylvain Deleu Exhibited and sold through Zueleika Gallery, 2018 from, ‘The Wootton Pots,’ I made the Wootton Pots shortly after my mother died, in 2016, and I wasn’t sure if this landscape, where I grew up, would…
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Nature & Solitude, 2025 This is a 3-day display of my work which will show at The Old Prison, Fosse Way, Northleach, GL54 3JH from Thursday-Saturday, March 6th-8th, 2025. Reviving the Salon This is the second of my ‘salon series’ started by Frances Bates at her house in Wootton by Woodstock, in 2024. The salons…
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2 Plus 2 Equals 5 Exploring Censorship in Art, 19202-20202 2 Plus 2 Equals 5 is the title of an exhibition at Not for Sale Gallery in Hackney Wick. The title is a reference to George Orwell’s use of the concept in 1984. ‘The Party’ adopts it as a fundamental tenet of belief to accustomise…
Read MoreVice and Virtue: the artists
Vice and Virtue: the artists Vice and Virtue is a mixed media exhibition by six artists who respond in substantially different ways to the rising religiosity of contemporary social justice movements. Much of the work was made specifically for the exhibition which continues until July 26th at Ruup & Form. This posts introduces the artists…
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Everygender, the Jugs Everygender’s Vision, (top right) The Avenging Vessel, (bottom left) both jugs 43×32 (incl handle,) x 27 cm Photo: Sylvain Deleu Everygender, comprised of four jugs, tells a pictorial story of my expulsion from Ceramic Art London in 2022 based on the Medieval Morality Play, ‘Everyman.’ Everyman, (1530) ‘Everyman’ is thought to have…
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Wedding Procession, 2011 .Wedding Procession, 2011 82h x 49w cm Private Collection Photo: Sylvain Deleu A Memorable Event Wedding Procession records the Royal Wedding of 2011, the marriage of Prince William to Katherine Middleton, as she was then. It took place in May that year and was memorable for reasons beyond the expected ones. Firstly,…
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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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