Practice Review ongoing research

My own Photos from Christies public exhibition – Lucie Rie and Jennifer Lee – raw glazing and adding oxides/materials to clay bodies

What are the chances I found two of my favorite ceramicists in the same place, very, almost overly, tasteful curation at Christies, the de Waal tipped it over the edge. Both Rie and Lee subvert the organic aesthetic – tampering with echos of stone patinas and stratigraphic seams.

At a glance you might think Rie’s pots are quite inorganic, but it is a misunderstanding of the organic that leads one to this belief. Some might think pepto bismol but I see Coraline Algae and Pyrite, the fantastical side of nature, that isn’t green and brown or neutral. I am not suggesting that this is what inspired Rie, simply that that’s what her work inspires in me.

could my practice review be a commentary on the culture and style of curation within the British and English museum setting…? were obsessed with the Parthenon Frieze and the Benin Bronzes (in fact the British Museum said they’d ‘loan the bronzes back to Nigeria’ at one point). meanwhile much of Britains native archaeology is sat underground in a multitiude of stores across the country.

Looted Benin Bronzes can be “loaned” says British Museum

IDEAS ON BRITISH FARMING AND CLIMATE ACTIVISM.

ecological change willl take a long time, transforming agriculture, the way that people view and use it, will taske a long time.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/British-Museum-Act-1963.pdf – bill that allows British Museum to not repatriate artefacts

amendment – https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmbills/037/10037.i-i.html – allows trustees and Secretary of State to transfer objects

My practice is centred around the changing status of material, the intangible ties they have to their places of origin and to ourselves. In the past I have focused on the status of material that we create for ourselves, especially in our ceramic world, and how it becomes easier and easier to lose track of this finite, earth bounty.

If only materials like copper carbonate, vanadium, cobalt, and even clay, looked as harmful, toxic, corrosive, as they can be. Whilst creating my collection ‘The Poisoned Chalice’, I challenged myself to create chalices that appeared as pernicious as they were, rendered so by the inclusion of Vanadium Pentoxide in the clay body.

http://altoonsultan.blogspot.com/2014/08/powerful-presences-at-bread-and-puppet.html