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FeaturedArticle Interview

Ceramics in Lockdown: An interview with Christie Brown

Leila Vilarrubi asks Christie Brown how lockdown has impacted the process of sculpting…

… Ceramics in Lockdown: An interview with Christie Brown
FeaturedArticle editorial Issue nine

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
FeaturedArticle Interview Issue nine

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
FeaturedArticle ceramics Creative Writing Issue nine poetry

Poetry: Tanicia Pratt – Records of Breaking

… Poetry: Tanicia Pratt – Records of Breaking
FeaturedCreative Writing poetry

Poetry: So Mayer – M87

… Poetry: So Mayer – M87

FeaturedInterview

Interview: Surface designing with Hadiya Williams

Hadiya Williams is an art director based in Washington, DC and founder of Black Pepper Paperie Co, which sells globally-inspired, one-of-a-kind handcrafted pieces.

… Interview: Surface designing with Hadiya Williams
FeaturedSpotlight

Spotlight: Throwing shapes with Miyelle Karmi

Miyelle Karmi makes ceramics that are bursting with personality. Starting with a lump of clay, her range of homeware, jewellery and sculpture twist and turn.

… Spotlight: Throwing shapes with Miyelle Karmi
FeaturedArticle ceramics Issue nine

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
FeaturedArticle Review

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
FeaturedCreative Writing poetry

Poetry: Emily Wilkinson – Worcester Teapot with Butterflies

… Poetry: Emily Wilkinson – Worcester Teapot with Butterflies

FeaturedArticle

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
FeaturedArticle Practice Based

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
FeaturedArticle ceramics Issue nine Practice Based

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

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