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Today is the #globaldayofclay AND #nationalclayweek and in honour I offer this image by Steve Mepsted of my raw clay People’s Votive that was gifted to the Thames during the #totallythames festival last week. This view shows Theresa May beginning to be swallowed by the tide. I really enjoy making unfired work. For its poetic ephemerality, but also here where it harnessed the power of political protest inherent in this clay votive for a People’s Vote. Lots of mixed feelings as the piece melted back into mud. Clay’s creative potential, universality, and wonderful plasticity are such a delight. Great to celebrate it today! . . . . . #globaldayofclay #globaldayofclay2018 #rawclay #claymyths #ceramicart #figurativeceramics #nationalclayweek #jopearl #stevemepsted #peoplesvote #islingtonineurope
Popped into the #forcesdelanature exhibition at the #manufacturedesevres during my whistle stop trip to Paris. Fabulous Norwegian artists Torbjorn Kvasbo, Kari Dyrdal and Marittima Tingleff on display. Monumental ceramics and tapestries - Wow . . . #ceramicart #contemporaryceramics #clay #extrudedclay
Petit Palais’s permanent collection in Paris is a revelation - and free entry too! Jean Carries statues, Greek lion gargoyles and funerary urns to highlight a few of my favourites.
Join @clayworkers this Sunday 30th Sept at noon for the regifting our unfired clay sculptures to the tidal waters of the Thames. We will be placing these raw clay offerings on the Thames foreshore in front of The Globe Theatre at low tide - 12 noon, and toasting then as the river rises and swallows them up, melting the work back to mud. This is the final part of our Votive installation that has been on display during the month-long @totallythames Festival at @southwark_cathedral. We will be echoing the ritual custom of offering votives into water that is known in many cultures and throughout history since Neolithic Times, and done to engender change and hope for the future. I hope my People’s Votive will bring about a vote on the final Brexit Deal. . . . #ACWU #TotallyThames #TotallyThamesFestival #votive #clayvotive #votiveoffering #meetthemaker #clay #rawclay #mudlarking #claysculpture #sculpture_art #peoplesvote #stopbrexit @peoples_vote @clayworkers @duncanhooson @edens_clay @steph_buttle @jopearlceramics @alison.cooke @danutasolowiej @jmillarstudio @richardcompton88 @saraheachristie @rachelsophertttttt @kayavladtheimpaler @nettywelch
Last few days to catch Votive, an exhibition of unfired raw clay sculptures by makers of @clayworkers. Show is on at @southwark_cathedral til Sat 29th Sept. . . . #ACWU #TotallyThames #TotallyThamesFestival #votive #clayvotive #votiveoffering #meetthemaker #clay #rawclay #mudlarking #claysculpture #sculpture_art #peoplesvote #stopbrexit @clayworkers @duncanhooson @edens_clay @steph_buttle @jopearlceramics @alison.cooke @danutasolowiej @jmillarstudio @richardcompton88 @saraheachristie @rachelsophertttttt @kayavladtheimpaler
Great to see @collective.matter visitors having a go at golem making. Lots of squelched clay, laughs and spooky body parts emerged. Participants wanted the golem to protect friends and family, unheard voices in our society and international peace in Europe. Nice. . . . #internationaldayifpeace #thinkinghands #clay #claymodelling #claygolem #publicengagement #meetthemakers #ldf18 #jopearl
Excited about today’s free drop in clay golem making workshop 12-4pm. Come and join in. Lots to celebrate: #ldf18, #internationaldayofpeace @sugarhousestudios Open Studios. Great opportunity to also chat with @collective.matter ‘s wonderful @evamasterman @katie_spragg_ceram @ankebuchman and @alicia_tsig As well as exploring together tactile making of superhuman clay body parts with me , there are tons of other exciting designers and makers to visit at @assembleofficial hothouse maker workshops and a BBQ to hang out at from 6pm. Hope to see you there! . . . . . #meetthemakers #claysculpture #tactileminds #clay #golem #thinkinghands
Sugarhouse Studios, a creative workspace run by Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble, will be open to the public as part of LDF18 on Friday 21st September 10am-6pm and Saturday 22nd September 10am-4pm. Join me in a Clay Golem workshop on Friday afternoon 12-4pm in @collective.matter ‘s studio. To book a slot https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monstrous-magical-mud-golem-making-workshop-tickets-50267622813. Or Join the tours and a BBQ! Explore studio spaces and work from a diverse range of artists, designers, fine furniture makers in an exhibition curated by Sugarhouse tenants. #LDF18 #meetingthemakers #sugarhousestudios #assemble #evasterman #katiespragg #jopearlceramics
Join me this Friday 12-4pm for a workshop making a prototype clay Golem : a magical clay being that can be conjured into life to fight your corner. It’s marks the beginning of my month long residency with @collective.matter and is part of the wonderful #sugarhousestudio Open studio on Friday and Saturday - celebrating #ldf18 We’ll be drawing inspiration from spooky skeletal shadow puppets, and exploring tactile modelling techniques. While our thinking hands are making it will be a chance to discuss what values are so important to you that you would risk conjuring our golem into life to protect them? To guarantee your place on the workshop go to the eventbrite page https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monstrous-magical-mud-golem-making-workshop-tickets-50267622813 #ldf18 #sugarhousestudios #openstudios #workshopeast #granbyworkshop #assemble #design #make #craft #london. Also See work at the Open Studio from: @juanjunca @williamfloydmaclean @emma_leslie_work @collective.matter @sitrakahr @katie_spragg_ceram @workshopeast @granbyworkshop @stinsensqueeze @yingchangcouk @ellis_white_ @assembleofficial @Lab_083 @l_d_f_official @sugarhousestudios
Sold my first piece tonight at #tactileminds to a lovely North London collector of ceramics. It was a small head that I wood fired in a metal brazier which produced the blackened chin on the figure. So nice to know it has gone to a good home!
Voted one of the top five #LDF18 things to see in East London, come to #tactileminds exhibition at the beautiful and deliciously atmospheric Mill House, Three Mills Lane (Bromley by Bow Station). Private View tomorrow night 6-9pm. Exhibition runs til Sunday 23rd Sept. Contemporary ceramicists showing new work and responding to the idea of clay exploring mental health issues. Sales of any ceramic work will be supporting @mindcharity. If you are coming by car set your day nav for Hancock Rd, London, E3 3DA and take the turn off A12 for neighbouring Tesco. How to see you there!
Lucie Rie’s ceramic buttons at #CoCA are a revelation. So inspiring.
Loved discovering the #anthonyshawcollection at #CoCA in the breakout sessions of The Art of Clay study day hosted by the @contemporaryartsociety this week. Great presentations and discussions by @alun_graves, @grizedale.arts @tcorvimora and Tanya Harrod. Thanks for the inspiration!
Come raise a glass and hopefully some funds for @mindcharity at @tactileminds Private View next Tuesday 18th Sept 6-8pm The Mill House Three Mills Lane. Nearest tube Bromley By Bow. . . . .I am delighted to be exhibiting next to fabulous artists and makers such as @steph_buttle @kathryn.hearn.porcelain @candyward @josephludkin @leah.jensen @katienelsonstudio @chloe Kelleher @jonosmart @vanessahogge @maryrosemaryart @sarahechristie @carogates.ceramics @helenjohceramics @claudiawassiczek @cardboard_and_clay @zoeclareartist @churlyblurburn_ . #meetthemaker #ceramicsinlondon #handmade #ceramics #londondesignfestival #mentalmovementmagazine #ldf2018 #artformentalhealth
Come raise a glass and hopefully some funds for @mindcharity at @tactileminds Private View next Tuesday 18th Sept 6-8pm The Mill House Three Mills Lane. Nearest tube Bromley By Bow. . . . .I am delighted to be exhibiting next to fabulous artists and makers such as @steph_buttle @kathryn.hearn.porcelain @candyward @josephludkin @leah.jensen @katienelsonstudio @chloe Kelleher @jonosmart @vanessahogge @maryrosemaryart @sarahechristie @carogates.ceramics @helenjohceramics @claudiawassiczek @cardboard_and_clay @zoeclareartist @churlyblurburn_ . #meetthemaker #ceramicsinlondon #handmade #ceramics #londondesignfestival #mentalmovementmagazine #ldf2018 #artformentalhealth
So enjoyed hearing banner maker #edhall talk at @tateexchange #producingproductions yesterday about his life as a maker of trade union banners. I am volunteering on @studioclaretwomey ‘s final instalment of her work with the TateExchange. Join us today and tomorrow on the 5th floor, embroidering words that resonate with the tools of our trade and experiences of our various forms of production. #unity, #freedom
Spooky that the ‘I Object’ exhibition, curated by Ian Hislop is opening today @britishmuseum. My Janus-inspired double headed portrait of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn is in a similar mould. A clay votive sculpted and offered for a People’s’ Vote on the Final Brexit Deal. ClayCraftivism - a protest piece to campaign in support of @peoples_vote. My piece is on show @southwark_cathedral until 30th Sept during the @totallythames festival. The exhibition is entitled Votive - a group show organised by my fellow comrades in @clayworkers. Along with the other unfired sculptures in the show, my Peoples’s Votive will be ‘gifted’ to the Thames at Midday-Low tide on Sunday 30th September. placed on the Thames foreshore in front of The Globe Theatre to melt into the tidal waters. . .Fellow exhibitors include the wonderful @steph_buttle, @duncanhoosan, @alison.cooke, @sarahechristie, @edens_clay, @nettywelch . . #votive #votiveofferings #clayvotive #contemporaryceramics #figurativesculpture #peoplesvote #exitbrexit #brexitjanus #southwarkcathedral #acwu #morleycollege #totallythamesfestival #toyallythames #bestforbritain #exitbrexit #fightbrexit #IObject #ceramicreview #craftmagazine #cfileonline
Votive for a Vote on the Final Brexit Deal went on show last night @southwarkcathed in the @clayworkers exhibition #Votive. My piece is inspired by a Roman chalice to Janus the god of transitions. It is deliberately unfired so that it can be ‘gifted’ to the Thames in a performance at the end of the show. The piece reflects on political duplicity as both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, featured in the double-headed portrait campaigned for Remain in the EU referendum, and highlights a sense that they are now two sides of the same Brexit coin: May delivering a shockingly hard Brexit and Corbyn aiding and abetting through lack of opposition. Not visible in this film is the ballot box hole inserted into the top of their hats, giving viewers the opportunity to ‘Vote on the Final Deal’. The show is on at Southwark Cathedral until 30th September, part of the @TotallyThames Festival. . .Fellow exhibitors include the wonderful @steph_buttle, @duncanhoosan, @alison.cooke, @sarahechristie, @edens_clay, @nettywelch . . #votive #votiveofferings #clayvotive #contemporaryceramics #figurativesculpture #peoplesvote #exitbrexit #twofacedremainers #brexitjanus #southwarkcathedral #acwu #morleycollege #totallythamesfestival #toyallythames #bestforbritain #exitbrexit #fightbrexit #islingtoninEurope

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Today is the #globaldayofclay AND #nationalclayweek and in honour I offer this image by Steve Mepsted of my raw clay People’s Votive that was gifted to the Thames during the #totallythames festival last week. This view shows Theresa May beginning to be swallowed by the tide. I really enjoy making unfired work. For its poetic ephemerality, but also here where it harnessed the power of political protest inherent in this clay votive for a People’s Vote. Lots of mixed feelings as the piece melted back into mud. Clay’s creative potential, universality, and wonderful plasticity are such a delight. Great to celebrate it today! . . . . . #globaldayofclay #globaldayofclay2018 #rawclay #claymyths #ceramicart #figurativeceramics #nationalclayweek #jopearl #stevemepsted #peoplesvote #islingtonineurope

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