Posts Tagged ‘women’s art’
How to Eat a Pomegranate, (2008)
How to Eat a Pomegranate, (2008) How to East A Pomegranate, 2008, 82h x 40w cm, Private Collection. Francis Kyle Gallery It is a memory of eating pomegranates with friends in Iran one Christmas, probably 2005. I am thinking a good deal about Iran now About the pot and the exhibition The pot pictured here…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreNature & Solitude
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…
Read MoreVanity of the Bonfires
Vanity of the Bonfires Romola George Eliot’s ‘Romola,’ set in Florence in the 1490s, but written in England in 1862, presents a society where public discourse, people’s everyday lives – their social lives in particular – and street politics were strikingly similar to our own. The public mood was volatile. The Medicis had been expelled…
Read More2 Plus 2 Equals 5
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…
Read MoreEverygender
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…
Read MoreWedding 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,…
Read MoreContinental 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…
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