Guernica Remaking, a research project led by Dr. Nicola Ashmore, seeks to explore how the radical energy of this political charged artwork is being harnessed by community groups across the globe.
… Spotlight: Guernica Remakings
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In the (Spider’s) Web (on Berta López)
After stumbling on an exhibition in Madrid, Roberta Quance discovers the affective resonance of crochet and the legacies of lacemaking…
… In the (Spider’s) Web (on Berta López)
Madge Gill: Creativity with No Boundaries
How the mysterious and enigmatic artist Madge Gill (1882-1961) defied all expectations of being a working class woman in the early 20th century.
… Madge Gill: Creativity with No Boundaries
Interview with Hannah Waldron
Hannah Waldron’s weavings translate the dynamism of modern architecture and cityscapes into fabric design…
… Interview with Hannah Waldron
Curator Interview: Tracing the Bauhaus Threads with Erica Warren
Continuing Decorating Dissidence’s exploration into the legacy of the Bauhaus weaving workshops, Suzanna Petot got in touch with Erica Warren, Associate Curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, to ask a few questions about her career and her most recent exhibition…
… Curator Interview: Tracing the Bauhaus Threads with Erica Warren
Editorial 9: Ceramics
Ceramics and pottery making are empowering practices, simple yet uplifting way of intervening in everyday life and leaving behind a trace of our touch.
… Editorial 9: Ceramics
An interview with Lubaina Himid
Through the Lancaster Dinner Service, Himid interrogates the city’s involvement in the slave trade, forcing the viewer to confront the dark histories of the British Empire and the ongoing legacies of this violence and oppression.
… An interview with Lubaina Himid
Poetry: Tanicia Pratt – Records of Breaking
Clay Clay Ceramics: a Collective in an Age of Social Distancing
Clay Clay Ceramics is a ceramics collective, featuring three young female artists; Alice Clarke, Madeline Denny-Gelder and Samantha Warden, whose binding quality lies within their interest in how ceramic artworks behave in a contemporary fine art setting.
… Clay Clay Ceramics: a Collective in an Age of Social Distancing
Review: Live Form by Jenni Sorkin
In the opening of Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, Jenni Sorkin leads with a new take on this tussle between two forms to argue that it was ‘modern craft and not modern art that spearheaded nonhierarchical and participatory experiences’. A sentiment we at Decorating Dissidence can get behind.
… Review: Live Form by Jenni Sorkin
Augusta Savage: Continuing a legacy
Augusta Savage’s classical sculpture humanised the Black experience during the prevalent Harlem Renaissance era.
… Augusta Savage: Continuing a legacy
Community in Clay: Rosamund Coady
As I approach 60, I feel comfortable working from ideas based on my interior perspective. The validation of others does not bother me too much – I like to be part of the conversation but otherwise I make what I feel like doing and that gives me pleasure.
… Community in Clay: Rosamund Coady
A Life Journey Through Clay
I could connect to people whom I a priori had nothing in common with, simply because we were potters. We spoke the same language, the language of clay, which went beyond the borders within which we had been born.
… A Life Journey Through Clay
Editorial 8: Queer(ing) Craft
Queer(ing) Craft is guest edited by Daniel Fountain.
… Editorial 8: Queer(ing) Craft
Crafting Queer Spaces: Living Beyond Limits
Living Beyond Limits (20 October 2018 – 3 February 2019) at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art was a queer re-exploration of its art collection. Assistant Curator Helen Welford and I (Claire Mead) invited members of local LGBTQIA+ communities to co-curate and queer it with us. Based on their choices of objects to be displayed, co-curators wrote interpretation labels based on their own personal experiences and thoughts around queerness...
… Crafting Queer Spaces: Living Beyond Limits
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