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From Mumbai to South Kensington: A Shared History in Clay (Part of Global Design Forum)

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The Ceramics Research Centre-UK has partnered with international collaborators: New York University Steinhardt, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and the Indian Ceramics Triennale. The conversations make visible many of the challenges of clay practice, clay’s social and economic ecosystems, its societal value and cultural significance. Dr Tasneem Zakaria Mehta Director Dr Bhau Daji […]

Phoebe Cummings: I hear myself with my throat

photograph of clay sculpture by Phoebe Cummings at Pallant House Gallery, 2024

Alongside the Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain exhibition, Phoebe Cummings is crafting a special installation in Pallant House – the Gallery’s 18th-century townhouse. Using raw clay, she will shape the artwork to mirror the features of the house. The work will explore themes of fragility, impermanence, and materiality often found in still life. Cummings shapes […]

Clay in Conversation 8: Conflict

This series of curated conversations, chaired by Tessa Peters, provides a platform for dialogue and discovery, bringing together a diverse range of artists whose practice uses clay and ceramics. Each ‘Clay in Conversation’ event centres on a specific theme – acting as a lens through which the artists present a project. The conversations offer an […]

Screening of ‘The Social Life of Food’

Matthias Kispert’s 30-minute documentary The Social Life of Food: Movements for Justice & Local Resilience will be screened at the London Conference in Critical Thought at the University of Greenwich, London. Registration for the conference is free and can be booked via this link. The film features interviews with a number of London-based initiatives involved […]

Presence: The Figure in British Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture

photograph of 4 clay figures sitting on a ledge. Figures made by Christie Brown

The exhibition Presence: The Figure in British Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture is held in the 13th century tithe barn at Messums West over the summer. It aims to explore the many ways in which artists have represented the human figure within the UK since 1945. Emerita Professor Christie Brown will be exhibiting a work from 2006-10 titled The Uncanny […]

Sculptors Drawings

charcoal and pastel drawing on paper showing multiple figures of a woman walking, naked and in different clothes.

Emerita Professor Christie Brown is included in this group exhibition at Messums West in Wiltshire, which offers insight into the relationship between two- and three-dimensional practice. This is an area of constant interest to the artist as she has recently developed her many years of life drawing to explore narrative composition that connects to her […]

The Invisible Vase

Prof. Clare Twomey will present her work ‘The Invisible Vase’ at The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, USA. The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse, a comprehensive exhibition that delves into the fascinating journey of the ways a single Classical vase rose to legendary status, shaping and influencing art and commerce across time and space. “This […]

Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain

Sara Dominici‘s article ‘Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain’ is out now in the latest issue of History of Photography. The article explores the arrival of the motorcar in Britain as it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. The article asks, more specifically, why those photographers who came from the […]

Shining Lights – Joy Gregory on Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain

Join Ingrid Pollard, Carole Wright, and Roshini Kempadoo for a panel discussion, chaired by Joy Gregory, as part of Photo London on Wednesday 15 May 2024. From Ingrid Pollard’s collages exploring the idealised male body to Carole Wright’s studies of community life in South London, the ground-breaking work made by black women photographers in the […]

Alluring Deceptions: the work of Valérie Belin

photograph of a book spread showing two images side by side by the artist Valérie Belin.

David Campany has published an overview of the work of French photographic artist Valérie Belin. “In 2003, the artist Valérie Belin made a series of photographs of Michael Jackson lookalikes. Not the preternaturally gifted child Michael, but the troubled older megastar. We can assume the lookalikes never met him. They were mimicking an image, or […]