Tag Archives: Exhibition

Continuing to revisit The China Hall

“The China Hall is one of those buildings that on first stepping inside elicits gasps of wonder – with its high barrel-vaulted ceilings, immense space and visible remnants of its former industrious past.”

From British Ceramics Biennial website (delivered by The Clay Foundation)

I agree with the British Ceramics Biennial site description there’s certainly something about the sheer scale of this space. That work continues to be commissioned especially for it is especially wonderful.

Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent

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Growing a thicker skin

I’m developing a body of work called Carapace, they’re going to be armours, skins, husks… wearable hopefully. For this I’m experimenting with paper clay, how thin can I make it,…

New Work: Crustaceous Collection

I unloaded my kiln this morning and then cracked open a couple of saggar pots that had been fired with wood ash, banana skins and all manner of organic matter.…

Crustaceous…

I love the idea of having a hardened exterior. I definitely don’t permanently but it is a good feeling to be finding your shell again. This word also relates to…

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2015 2016 2017 2018 2020 Aesthetica Audience development Be Manzini Bloc Projects Bragazzis Cinema clay conference Covid 19 Dial F Emotion of the day Exhibition Fair familial film freelance freelancer London new work online online shop Open Studio Poetry reading Relic Sheffield Sheffield Creative Guild shop Skord studio The Daily Journeys We Wear The Hepworth Wakefield This Way Up throwing THWCCF THWCCF20 TWU20 work in progress Writing Yorkshire

Revisiting The China Hall, Old Spode Works

As part of the rebuilding plans for this site I wanted to make much better use of the reams of photos that document my past exhibitions. These were taken when I delivered my work to the British Ceramics Biennial in September 2013. The space was incredible, absolutely cavernous with so much of the last industry, an all encompassing culture, in evidence.

Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Behind the scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial 2013 (credit: Anna Kime) The China Hall, Old Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent

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The Furies research

Enjoying researching fury related words for my four protest badges. The words in the photo are taken from the etymology of forge, fray, fiery and fight.

Work in progress: Protest badges

Having fired the moulds taken from the plaster ceiling rose (see previous Instagram posts here and here) I pressed the first round of porcelain shapes today. The hands holding tools…

Honoured…

I felt very honoured to be featured by Aesthetica recently in a piece about sculpture evolving. Lacuna was longlisted for Aesthetica’s Art Prize in 2015. I remember being asked to…

Work in progress: Totem

A good studio session throwing porcelain for a new tall (taller than kiln) sculpture to be stacked over a cane for support.

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Relic during lockdown

Photographs courtesy of Peter Martin and Bloc Projects

My Relic installation pictured here is from Bloc Project’s Members Show. The exhibition is finished and the gallery remains closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I realised it was strangely fitting to think of these obsolete seeming tools on hidden display.