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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'
My studio is where ever I am...
Studio
Practice
COVID Folklore
In times of crisis new forms of sociality emerge, new and renewed rituals and customs are forged. This cultural shift is most often underpinned by creativity, by more adaptable and intrinsic modes of practice that emerge from the gaps between art and life. As our stories of lockdown settle into folklore it is time to reappraise the domestic and to better understand the cultural agency of ‘art as it is lived’..
Creativity in a time of COVID Royal Anthropology Society and Folklore Institute
Compositions in response to the
'Reverie' of children at home during Lockdown by Violinist Bethan Frieze
Reverie
Covid-19 defined a period of time in which the usual balance of work and life was interrupted. For some parent/artists, this meant their creative work became inseparably interwoven with their active concerns as a home schoolteacher, as well as a neighbour and a citizen. For many of their neighbours and wider communities, it meant they became more creative, witnessed in paintings of rainbows in nearly every window along every street. For a while, there persisted a new sociality, that interwove art and life, where crocheted scarves were threaded through fences and lampposts and our daily lives were encouraged by an almost protective state of reverie. As the balance tilts back, it is important to identify what was revealed by inhabiting that intervening space.
The Irreducible Forces of Home:
Ensemble Art Practices of Parent/Artists during Covid-19, in Creativity in a time of COVID Royal Anthropology Society and Folklore Institute
Irreducible Forces Photographs by Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
Third Space: Photographs by Toril Brancher
Printing
I am interested in how our embodied knowledge channels and reveals itself through gestures, pose, and the responsiveness of our skin, often revealing thought without us even realizing. Yet the knowledge pulsing though our veins is not solely ‘ours’, we carry inherited predispositions, familial traits as well as individual response. This new body of work will build on previous practice into the expression of flesh and skin through the
body blushing, shivering, and stretching, to explore an aesthetic that carries t
he properties of embodied knowledge
through experimentation with ceramic print and glaze.
Printing Workshop With Wendy Kershaw ICS
Pictoral Language
Playscape
The Expression of Flesh and Skin
COVID Sketches
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