Posts Tagged ‘studiopottery’
Wedding Procession, 2011
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…
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…
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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…
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Wootton Exhibition Wootton Exhibition #2 I’m having an exhibition in Wootton by Woodstock, the village where I grew up. It is hosted by my sister who now lives there in the same house we lived in as children. The show runs all next week, Sunday 11th-Friday 16th February, by appointment. Contact me if you’d like…
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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…
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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 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…
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