Craft Culture
Can you tell us a bit about who you are and what you do? I am an artist and academic. I’ve been a practicing artist since the 80s and I’m an Emerita professor at the University of Westminster. I make sculpture and I’m involved with the ceramics research centre at Westminster, and this ties in […]
Ceramics are intimately bound up with humanity. It is an empowering practice, a simple yet uplifting way of intervening in everyday life and leaving behind a trace of our touch…
Tanicia Pratt’s poem reflecting on the vulnerabilities of the digital world
So Mayer’s poetic response to Magdalene Odundo…
Hadiya Williams is the founder of Black Pepper Paperie Co, which sells globally-inspired, one-of-a-kind handcrafted pieces. Here she shares insights on ceramics contemporary moment…
Contemporary ceramic homeware
A contemporary ceramics collective responds to the COVID-19 lockdown
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’…
Emily Wilkinson responds to Bouke de Vries
Janyce Denise Glasper explores the legacies of Augusta Savage in relation to her Black Women Writers A-Z sketches…
Rosamund Coady explores how her practice links to local communities – especially during the pandemic…
Bisila Noha details her journey through clay…
