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
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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
Poetry: So Mayer – M87
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
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
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
Poetry: Emily Wilkinson – Worcester Teapot with Butterflies
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
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