There is a particular quality of silence in an empty room, especially a family home when the door slams loudly and voices dissipate along the street. It is as if the air exhales, released from its constant disruption, constant churning by children running up the stairs and through doorways. For a moment, it is given reprieve to settle into the spaces left behind.
Material Presence 2018
May 2019
Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'
May 2019
Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'
Socially Engaged Ceramics
...at the same time, a relational turn was taking place, fuelled by a systemic interest in the nature of creativity. This shift was timely in regard global events, from the refugee Crisis in 2016 to growing awareness of ecological responsibilities and practice began to pull all areas of concern together: creative thinking, clay, and ethnographic study...
There is a close association between skin and the expression of thought. When blushing, paling, or sweating we can be, albeit momentarily, taken over by its conveyance of emotion before we are consciously aware of our own feelings, what Connor describes as ‘thinking through the skin’
The Fragmented Figure
Interpreting Ceramics Issue 8
Making Small
Talk
...and we come together in this space to explore connections between the patterns and tendencies of spoken conversations and the patterns and tendencies of conversations with clay, to better understand how the practice begins to sensitize those involved to the nature of human interaction, and act as a register of the ‘smaller stories’ in the details of shared experiences.
"Making Small Talk' a Collaboration with Kim Norton, Sam Lucas and CJ O'Niell
Relational Ceramics
This interest in the materials sociability has arrived at an opportune time, promoting not
only a rich well of potential ideas but more importantly, a more responsive, synergetic practice between art and life that could inform its sustainability.
CoCA Restating Clay:
'Ceramics Communities' 2019
International Residencies / Interactive Workshops / Lectures / Premier Screenings H
aptic/Tacit: Language of Clay Cautionary Tales from the Archive, Clay Networks: Digital Workshop, Fabcre8
New
Paradigms
in
Participatory Practice
Traditionally art and art theory is monological...once this process becomes social, the 'aesthetic' is considered more as a form of knowledge relevant & communicable amongst a collective or spheres of understanding. Art practice becomes about the social articulation of aesthetic experience.
Ceramic Values 'Can Ceramics Make a Difference?' 2017
Collaboration with Artworks Cymru
Conference, toolbox of Approaches to Participatory Arts Practice
Beyond Borders
Storytellers / Musicians / Illustrators Poets / Sculptors / Writers Archaeologists / Geologists / Historians each drawing parallels between the movement of the earth and the movement of man to encourage debate about journeying and asylum
FLUX: Art, Society and Responsibility 2016
International Event Across 3 Events, 3 Venues, 3 Weeks:
Interdisciplinary Performances and Workshops Across Penarth Shoreline and Pavilion, 'What We Take When We Leave' Exhibit at Cardiff MADE, FLUX sharing event,Storytelling and Sensory Workshops as Made in Roath.
The Music, Making and Dance
of Cob
As with Waulking and Milling the activity of creating Cob can become as much an ethnographic record of time and place as any resultant artefact. The songs, following a folk tradition begin slow paced, with the tempo increasing as the repetitive act of blending materials becomes easier. The songs are not strictly adhered to, often improvised, responsive to the stories and experiences of the individuals involved.
Centre of Ceramic Art 2017
SIPS: Seed Funding
The Greenman Festival encourages social arts practice. This workshop taught the history of Cob its use, song, dance and narratives arising from it.
The
Poetry of Clay
Such ‘compound narratives’ in art are not so straight forward as in literature, where a simple comma or semicolon can be used to join two thoughts. In art, often without linear sequence, references are instead layered, each one reporting, embellishing, impacting on the properties of the other.
'Woven Narratives'
Ceramics Art and Perception 2020
Crafts Council: Hey Clay:
A Collaboration Between CSAD and the School of Education and Social Policy involving Storyteller Dr, Dylan Adams and Poet Dr. Christina Thatcher