Tag: ceramics

  • Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art

    Through three generations, this show explores the importance of black female artists in shaping ceramics over the past 70 years, starting with the seminal Nigerian potter Ladi Kwali

  • British Ceramics Biennial 2021

    Set in the heart of Britain’s former ceramic manufacturing centre, this inspiring show provides an invaluable platform for artists unafraid of tackling big topics

  • Christine and Jennifer Binnie – interview

    Artist sisters Christine and Jennifer Binnie talk about their joint curation of an exhibition from the Towner Collection, returning to East Sussex, where they were raised, and life and work during lockdown

  • Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years

    If you can move beyond the small size of the venue and the incongruity of hermetically sealed display vitrines, this show provides a chance to view Perry’s raw, angry and provocative early works

  • In the Land of the Gods. Marc Chagall and the Greek World

    This colourful exhibition explores the influences of the Hellenic world and its Bacchanalian myths on the Jewish artist of folklore, circus, and biblical tales

  • Michael Sherrill – interview: ‘I’d call myself a student of art’

    Sherrill talks about his current retrospective at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, why he calls himself a “material-based artist”, being influenced by Matisse – and the joy of home-grown tomatoes

  • Jonathan Baldock: Facecrime

    Baldock looks as if he is having fun, pulling faces in mud and decorating them in glaze, and the mood is infectious. He seems less interested in the details of cultural history than in producing the aesthetic of the ruin…

  • Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic

    Breaking the boundaries between 2D and 3D works, Betty Woodman’s ceramic assemblages resemble stage sets for dreams, filled with figments and fragments of imagination and memory