Emerging Potters magazine - October to December 2021

EMERGING

Issue 25 October to December 2021

Potters

Emerging Potters - 25

October - December 2021

Introduction The online pottery magazine One of the countries most famous and influential craftsmen John Leach has died "peacefully" at the age of 82.

John, who ran Mulcheney Pottery for over 50 years, passed away on Sunday August 29.

He was the latest in a line of Leach family members to take charge of the pottery business they ran, having trained with his grandfather Bernard, and his father David.

Although many shows have been cancelled this year at least one important event did take place. The British Ceramics Biennial has announced the winners of UK’s leading ceramics prize AWARD and Fresh awards for new talent.

And the winner is Stephen Dixon who was named the winner of AWARD, the leading platform for contemporary ceramic art practice in the UK and one of the flagship exhibitions at this year’s British Ceramics Biennial, which takes place in Stoke-on-Trent until 17 October.

Cover: Laura Plant at work

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Stephen was selected from a shortlist of 10 artists and awarded the £5,000 prize for excellence, innovation and creative ambition.

His winning work, Transient: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares is a 4m-long silhouette of a dilapidated Mediterranean fishing vessel, the stereotypical image of a refugee shipwreck.

Contributions to the gallery of work from makers and students are welcome and will be included wherever possible on a first come basis. Send to the email address – paulbailey123@googlemail.com. The editor’s decision is final. © Paul Bailey 2021 Emerging Potters is produced in association with Aylesford Pottery UK.

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Contents

Rosie Harman. A Ceramic Landscape 2021.

Ceramic installation plus feathers

British Ceramics Biennial 3 – 14 Laura Plant 15 - 18 Morley College 19 - 28 Book Review Making Pinch Pots 29 -30 Book Review Contemporary British Ceramics 31 – 33 Thrown Gallery 34 News Item 35 News Item: BCB winners 36

Below: Stephen Dixon. British Ceramics Biennial.

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British Ceramics Biennial Twenty-five early career ceramic artists were selected for Fresh, one of the flagship exhibitions of the British Ceramics Biennial festival, taking place in Stoke-on-Trent until 17 October 2021.

• Popalini & Jezando, who taught themselves to throw with the help of You Tube and advice from potter Philip Leach, and now create contemporary pots influenced by traditional north Devon pottery and understated Japanese forms

From YouTube tutorials and community workshops to degree programmes and apprenticeships, Fresh 2021 celebrates the rich and diverse learning opportunities that are shaping ceramics today.

• RCA graduate Ian Thompson, a painter who fell in love with ceramics and whose work is inspired by studying ceramic and painting traditions of the past

It brings critical attention to artists from the UK and Ireland at a launch moment in their careers.

This year’s line-up celebrates their personal journeys in clay, which cross cultures, continents and forms of expression. The selection includes:

• Sarah Strachan, who discovered clay at community art clubs before studying fine art and now tackles environmental issues in her multidisciplinary practice, working with both manufactured and ‘wild clay’.

Stoke-on-Trent until 17 October

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The Fresh exhibitors were selected by a panel of artists, makers, educators and learning designers led by artist and curator Helen Felcey, who commented:

‘The works featured in the exhibition celebrate the unique learning pathways that each maker, artist and designer has followed.

Some discovered clay as a child or while studying in the community, while others found the medium through college and university.

These bright new talents are united by their intention to embark on careers within the ceramics field - and by their extraordinary achievements.

‘Each artist opens our eyes to the vast material possibilities of the medium.

Their commitment to artistic discovery represents the courage of new beginnings, providing what we all need at this moment in time.’

Gerald Mak Aftersisterkwunyum (Pink Matte) 44x022 cm. Glazed and carved porcelain

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The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) is a prestigious and high-profile festival of contemporary ceramics that takes place in Stoke-on-Trent. BCB presents artworks from the UK’s leading ceramicists alongside work by international artists, in exhibitions and special events held across the city.

BCB is underpinned by an exciting yearround programme of artists’ commissions, education and community engagement projects. British Ceramics Biennial is a prestigious project that embraces the heritage of the Potteries as the home of British ceramics; that stimulates creativity and innovation across the breadth of its practice and sharpens Stoke-on-Trent’s creative edge as an international centre for excellence in contemporary ceramics.

Initiated in 2009, BCB has grown to be the single largest ceramics event in the UK, a flagship cultural project for Stoke-on-Trent City Council, and a catalyst for regeneration.

BCB has been successful in bringing great art, creative energy and critical attention to the city, and has facilitated meaningful new public engagement with local communities, visitors and cultural tourists.

Above: Ian Thompson. Diogenes back view.

Below: Janet Lines. Stepping into the unknown3.

British Ceramics Biennial funders: The British Ceramics Biennial is funded by Stokeon-Trent City Council and is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Fresh is produced by the British Ceramics Biennial with funding support from the Schroder Charity Trust and in association with the National Association for Ceramic Educators.

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The 2021 Fresh exhibitors are: Abi Wills, Antonio Fois, Becky Hoghton, Chloe Monks, Cicely Peters, Corinna Reynolds, Dorcas Casey, Elizabeth Jackson, Fiona Underhill, Gerald Mak, Ian Thompson, Janet Ann Lines, Karl Sebastian, Katy Stubbs, Leora Honeyman, Lexie Macleod, Nico Conti, Nicole Waefler, Oriel Zinaburg, Popalini & Jezando, Rosie Harman, Sarah Strachan, Serena Quinn, Valerie Bernardini, Valerie Zoz. Fresh 2021 selection panel: Helen Felcey - artist, educator and curator Bisila Noha - artist, trustee at Headway East London, co-director at Lon Art, part of Design Can Shane Porter – designer and Lecturer, Belfast Metropolitan College Dr Natasha Mayo – Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University Dr Neil Brownsword – Professor, Staffordshire University Lee Critchlow – Product Design Manager, Wedgwood Fiskars Youth Panel from Haywood Academy Secondary School, Stoke-on-Trent. Supported by Miss Helen Morgan.

Above: Becky Hoghton Folly 2019 20x10x10 cm Porcelain

Left: Cicely Peers St Davids Collection 2021 9cmx14cm Parian Clay 3

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Above: Antonio Fois A wondrous Creature 2021 70x50x40cm Right: Elizabeth Jackson Over and over Stoneware and parian

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Above left: Abi Wills Watertower 2021 6x9cm Porcelain Above right: Jung Min Park. Unveiling 2019. 53x48x173cm Glazed ceramic, plaster, sound

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Above: Lexie Macleod

Left; Karl Sebastian Relics from the future 2021 650 x 250 x 800cm

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Top left: Katy Stubbs Rumours 2020 18x19x21.5cm Earthenware Above: Oriel Zinaburg Folded Organic Form 2021 Left: Nico Conti Of Lace and Porcelain Congruous Vase 2021 3D printed porcelain 28x20x18 cm

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Left: Fiona Underhill Knowing ground 2020 Below: Valerie Zoz Adorable Grotesqueries 2021 30cm x 15cm Porcelain and Stoneware

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Left: Sarah Strachan Objects listening 2020 70cm x 70cm x 50cm Stoneware ceramic and tubular steel Below: Popalini Jezando Faceted Guinomi 2019

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Top left: Chloe Monks Interstitial Spaces 2021 17cm x 26cm x 13cm Porcelain and copper Centre left: Corinna Reynolds 2021 Relinquish 54cm x 34cm x 20cm Porcelain Bottom left: Serena Quinn Fragility of time-growth 2021 40cm x 30cm Porcelain Top right: Valerie Bernardini Maelstrom 1 Above right: Nicole waefler Neo-Rococo 2021 20cm

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Left: Dorcas Casey Pain for Home 2020 61cm x 30cm x 17cm Black stoneware Above: Rosie Harman A Ceramic Landscape 2021 Ceramic installation plus feathers

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Laura Plant First Day Vase - Black Jasper

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Laura Plant Laura Plant is the latest ‘Fresh Talent Resident Artist’ hosted at the British Ceramics Biennial (DCB) Studio, Spode Works. Her hometown of Stoke-on-Trent where she draws from the creative heritage and ambition of the pioneering potters who made the city famous. Helped by this residency to delve deeper, she looks to echo the grandeur long admired. Laura is reimagining iconic forms, stripping back the decoration to reveal contemporary designs.

Exploring the identity and culture of place, she references Stoke’s past, present and future, through the Spode Site. The industrious presence of the China Hall, with its worn walkways still visible to the keen eye. The flora and fauna growing from buildings are a beautiful and poignant reminder of the challenges that have faced the ceramics industry in recent years. Yet the site is finding new life as a catalyst for regeneration and home for contemporary ceramics. Laura see’s Stoke’s identity as entwined with craftsmanship, skill and with innovation at the heart of its success.

Trials. Thrown porcelain

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First Day Vases

Drawn to the grandeur of the pottery's history and the amazing creations of 18th century ceramics, she wanted the project to begin, starting with visiting the museums of Stoke-onTrent, the V&A Wedgwood museum and the reserve collection of the Potteries Museum.

Here she was inspired by the forms and innovations of Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Spode and their contemporaries. She wanted to reimagine these iconic works of art, striping back the decoration to show the beautiful and elegant forms.

In her studio she began throwing shapes, taking elements of the historic forms and mixing them with elements of her own style. Drawn in particular to handles she began to explore how sweeping handles can create drama though extrusion and manipulating casts.

‘Trials’ are almost thrown sketches in porcelain, a small snapshot of her experiments with glaze, form and surface during the residency.

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From the research, she found the story of The First Day Vases thrown by Josiah Wedgwood on the first day of production at his new Factory in Etruria - captivating. They are lovely objects in their own right but feel so full of hope and optimism for the future. She wanted her collection for the BCB to mirror this hope for Stoke’s future so designed and created her own First Days Vases. Cast in Bone China, black porcelain and black Jasper (kindly given by Wedgwood), each vase explores either glaze or is decorated with flora and fauna found around the old Spode works. Each is finished with a pigeon finial, echoing the animal motifs common in Stoke ceramics, and connecting them to the Spode works site.

Laura Plant lauraplantdesign@gmail.com www.lauraplantdesign.co.uk

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Balanced Pigeon Vase. Stoneware

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Morley College Between Us was an exhibition of the 2020 graduates of the Morley College HND in Ceramics. They were not able to have a graduation show when the course ended but kept in touch and supported each other during the year. Between Us, held in July 2021 at the Borough Road Gallery, celebrated this spirit and was a showcase for heir new work.

Anna Silverton, Course Director of the HND commented: ‘We are a relatively new HE ceramics qualification course, offering an alternative to University for adults of all ages and all backgrounds. At Morley College Waterloo, we foster talent by keeping to small year groups, ensuring maximum support and space for each student.

Our students are strong individualists, this is demonstrated clearly in their work; some have followed a ceramic product-design pathway and others explore conceptual ceramic art-practices, a few resist categorisation. They are amazing, working through lockdown and coming back stronger and more determined’.

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Valerie Bernardini Organic form and mineral substance Still-life and movement A marriage of photography and ceramics With light as the master of ceremony I combine delicate porcelain organic forms with reflections and shadows to create arresting images and films. https://valeribernardini5e42.myportfoli o.com @valerie_bernardini_

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Fiona Bruce These pieces are the treasures of the beachcomber; meandering a path along the shore to discover what the retreating tide has left behind. In this collection, called ‘Washed Ashore’ I have used porcelain and stoneware clays to hand build shapes that evoke the shells and pebbles with their smooth and rough textures. Turning the pieces over in your hands gives a strong reminder of the feel of a wave washed stone with its strange patterns and textures. The mussel shell blues, browns and oranges come from oxides and coloured slips that I have applied and burnished before high firing to 1260 degrees C. @fcbceramics

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Ewan Crallan I make useful ceramics for everyday pleasures – eating and drinking. I am enthused and energised by the connections between people and design.

I get a lot of energy from collaborating with others, and I’m enthusiastic to see where a suggestion might go… Come on, what shall we make today? www.ewancrallan.com @ewancrallanceramics

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Claudette Forbes I was born and raised in inner city Bristol, the child of first-generation Jamaican immigrants. As a teenager, the race riots in St Pauls in the early 1980s made a lasting impression on me. This experience is often reflected in my art. I seek to test interpretations of the present day, whilst producing tangible objects that contain a certain beauty and reference a past. @claudetteforbesceramics

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Cathy Green I create ceramic sculptural forms to explore ideas in 3D. This process helps me visualise 2D geometric concepts and explore how intriguing ideas can be recreated in space.

Clay allows me to build art which evolves, helping me to understand and explain ideas in a way I cannot express in any other medium.

My sculptures are inspired by the geometry and patterns in nature. Often multi-faceted, they play with light, colour, shadow, and the relationship between positive and negative space. www.cathygreenceramics.com @cathygreenceramics

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Sue Gunn The pattern that veins and arteries make within the body, nature and the environment are motifs that appear in my work. I build structures that are ambiguous and precarious, that engage, provoke and stimulate a dialogue. www.suegunnartist.com @suegunnartist

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Natalia ShawFernandez I look to create ceramic art that is unique, decorative, yet also has its function. I have created a series of tactile slip cast vases; individually hand decorated and finished with a satin matt glaze. @nataliaceramics

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Sophia Staves I like to reimagine mundane household objects within a punk aesthetic allusive of inspiration drawn from the detritus of contemporary culture. Traditional pottery forms are distorted in a playful way through a lens of diametric qualities such as superfluity and patent impracticality. Wash at 30°. @urchinface

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Jane Wilson These pieces are inspired by close observation of the vivid green leaves of early spring. Folding the slabs or piercing the walls of the vessels with pins creates contrasting textures on the different sides of the clay just as leaves show a subtle difference in form, colour and texture on their tops and undersides. @janewilsonceramics

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Book Review Making Pinch Pots

By Jacqui Atkin Published by Search Press UK price £14.99 ISBN 978-1-78221-996-5 www.searchpress.com

This lavish book has 35 beautiful projects using hand-formed pieces. Each project is illustrated with step-by-step sequences. The result is a series of ideas which only uses a pinching technique and is not dependent on throwing on the wheel.

For those starting pottery for the first time or returning after many years it offers a variety of projects with helpful tips on tools, which clay, design notes and decoration guides. For anyone with a movement disability it is truly and table-top way of making things. It is often an introduction to pottery for children.

Jacqui Atkin is very well known as a writer and maker. She comments in the book, “…mastering pinching will teach the best tactile sensitivity of all the making methods. It is a methodical way of working that allows the individual to make adjustments but gives the best control over he clay. Of course, it takes practice to make something of refinement, but once mastered it is possible to make wonderful, innovative forms for practical or decorative use that rival anything made by other methods, even those on the wheel”.

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Book Review: Contemporary British Ceramics

By Ashley Thorpe ISBN: 9781785008887 Width: 215mm Height: 280mm Pages: 208 Published: 27/09/2021 by The Crowood Press Price: £30.00 www.crowood.com Ceramics is one of the most vibrant and engaging fields of contemporary British art. This lavishly illustrated book reviews the work of twenty-two artists and celebrates their contribution to its rich landscape. Written from a collector’s point of view, it explores what contemporary ceramic objects can mean, what emotions they evoke and how artists draw upon different facets of the art and crafts worlds in their work. A vital visual and critical resource, Contemporary British Ceramics showcases British ceramics as a compelling interdisciplinary practice, attuned to the contemporary world. Featuring more than 280 images, it encourages readers to look beneath the surface, to discover the vibrant contribution that British ceramics makes to the broad field of contemporary art.

Ashley Thorpe is a collector of ceramics, writer, playwright, performer and academic. Having seriously collected contemporary British studio ceramics for over fifteen years, he has extensive knowledge of the field.

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Featuring the work of: Richard Slee Alison Britton Jennifer Lee Carol McNicoll Sara Radstone Pam Su Benjamin Pearey Aneta Regal Nathan Mullis Mella Shaw Tessa Eastman Annie Turner Henry Pim Martin Smith Aphra O’Connor Patricia Volk Ken Eastman Nao Matsunaga Sam Lucas Elena Gileva Connor Coulston Neil Brownsword

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In the book Thorpe comments, “I want this volume to follow the educational approach. This proposes that if artists trained at the same institution, perhaps under the same teacher, it follows that their work must be broadly similar. Not everyone who studied ceramics at Camberwell, the Royal College of Art, or wherever else, produces work according to the same aesthetic ideals. This is not to say that artistic genealogy does not have its place. There can, however, be an over-emphasis on education as the primary determinant. In saying all this, I am not anti-theory, or anti-history. It is simply that, in this volume, I have sought to approach contemporary ceramics in Britain in a slightly different way”.

Below: Aphra O’Connor Flexure Shift and Torsion Intersection

Above: Sam Lucas . Unexplained Msstories Head in the bin

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“I have tried to account for different approaches to its reading. Each chapter is self-contained, enabling you to dip in and out the book as you see fit. For those who decide to read the book chronologically, I have placed artists in close proximity where there is a shared vocabulary or point of reference. This is not so much putting work into conceptual boxes; more curating it into echoes and synergies, as well as very real and significant differences. For this reason, I do not consider the lack of sub-sections in this book to be a critical retreat. Quite the opposite, in fact”.

The result is a book which captures the very best of what is being produced today, capturing the richness and diverse approach of the makers.

This is not just a coffee-table book but an essential reference tool for anyone interested in modern ceramics.

Right: Connor Coulston. Youth of Today (2019) Photo: Tania Dolvers. Bottom right: Aphra O’Connor. Imbricate Drape. Photo: Apha O’Connor. Bottom Left: Pam Su. Merced California (2018). Photo Chao Wang.

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Thrown Gallery LEACH 101 4th - 24th October 2021 At Thrown at the Old Brick Shop, 51 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1RU We are honoured to be working with the renowned Leach Pottery, St Ives, as part of their landmark 100 year anniversary celebrations to present Leach 101.

Founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, the Leach Pottery is among the most respected and influential potteries in the world. The exhibition Leach 101 presents the Leach Pottery of today: 100 (+1) years since it was founded, with 100 years of influence and development, landing straight into today’s craft boom.

Launching as part of London Craft Week in a beautiful pop-up space in London Bridge (our first venture south of the river), we hope those able to visit will do so: the exhibition will be open every day Mon-Sat 10am-6pm and Sun 11am-5pm.

The exhibition will also be presented online. A special preview of all works will

be available via our website to our mailing list from Saturday 2nd October at 7pm and the exhibition will launch fully online on Monday 4th October at 7pm.

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News Item Thrown Open Entry Calling all artists & Makers After the success of last year's very spontaneous open call for our annual Winter Exhibition, we have decided to throw open this show to submissions for this year's too.

Our Winter Exhibition is a big mixed collection of exceptional art and design celebrating the spectrum of the creativity of today. We welcome submissions in all medium and form, of a single piece or a whole collection, from anywhere in the world and from those just starting out as well as established names. Basically if you'd like to be involved in what we do, we'd love to hear from you.

The show will again be primarily online and will launch via our website on Thursday 18th November at 7pm (UK time), running until 30th January 2022.

The exhibition is open to international submissions. For international submissions, an additional amount for delivery to the UK will be included on selling prices as a base price.

The submission deadline is midnight on Sunday 31st October and we have set up a special submission page just for this which will help layout all information required. Any questions or if you'd prefer to submit via email, email Claire at gallery@throwncontemporary.co.uk. Full terms and conditions can be seen on the website.

TERMS & CONDITIONS - Submissions must be made via the submission page or email with: + website-ready images of each individual work being submitted + title, medium, dimensions, artist name and price included in the image title of each piece + an artist statement and bio to give some background information on the work and artist Images are to be taken in good light on a uniform background (ideally white or black).

Image size at least 1000x1000 pixels and can be portrait, square or landscape in format.

- The work submitted must be available for purchase for duration of the show (18th November - 30th January 2022) and any changes to its availability must be immediately communicated to the gallery.

- Gallery commission for sales: 45% + VAT. - On the sale of an artwork from the artists studio, the artist will be responsible for sending out the piece to the buyer within 2 working days and the gallery will then reimburse the postage costs (requiring a copy of the receipt). In case of breakages in transit, the gallery will cover 50% of the artist costs.

- If an artwork is requested to be viewed in a physical space, the artist will be responsible for making arrangements to deliver and the gallery will reimburse the postage costs (requiring a copy of the receipt). In case of breakages in transit, the gallery will cover 50% of the artist costs.

- If an artwork is requested to be exhibited in a physical space, the artist will be responsible for making arrangements to deliver and the gallery will responsible for any returns.

- Payment for works sold will be on the 15th of the month following the sale date. Submission deadline: Sunday 31st October at midnight. All artists will be notified on the decision on their work by Wednesday 10th November.

See the website for full term and conditions and application form.

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News Item British Ceramics Biennial announces winners of UK’s leading ceramics prize AWARD and Fresh awards for new talent Stephen Dixon has been named the winner of AWARD, the leading platform for contemporary ceramic art practice in the UK and one of the flagship exhibitions at this year’s British Ceramics Biennial, which takes place in Stoke-on-Trent until 17 October.

Stephen Dixon was selected from a shortlist of 10 artists and awarded the £5,000 prize for excellence, innovation and creative ambition. His winning work, Transient: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares is a 4m-long silhouette of a dilapidated Mediterranean fishing vessel, the stereotypical image of a refugee shipwreck. The work is created from a series of suspended maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) objects, each one representing either the dream of a new life in a place of refuge or the nightmare of conflict, displacement or forced migration. These objects, which range from a life jacket to a rocking horse were chosen during online discussion groups with refugees and asylum seekers from the Burslem Jubilee Project based in Stoke-on-Trent.

In his practice Stephen Dixon uses ceramics to investigate contemporary narratives. The technique of maiolica used in this work originated in nineth century Iraq, and gradually spread across the Mediterranean into Moorish Spain, Renaissance Italy and eventually into Northern Europe. Transient: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares draws upon the geographical similarity between the historic migration of maiolica and the migration routes of contemporary refugees and asylum seekers.

Alun Graves Senior Curator Ceramics and Glass V&A and Chair of the selection panel comments: ‘Stephen Dixon’s work – Transient: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares – demonstrates ceramics’ ability to address the pressing issues of our times. It is outstanding in concept, design and execution. It engages meaningfully with the hopes and fears of migrant experience, painstakingly rendering in ceramic objects that have symbolic value for refugees and asylum seekers from the Burslem Jubilee Project.’

Stephen Dixon was selected from a 10-strong list of artists who together provide a snapshot and celebration of current activity in ceramic art. The other shortlisted artists were Helen Beard, Christie Brown, Alison Cooke, Connor Coulston, Tamsin van Essen, Mawuena Kattah, Jin Eui Kim, Ho Lai and Cleo Mussi, all of whom have created new work currently on show at this year’s BCB festival.

Three early career artists at a launch moment in their creative practice have been awarded Fresh residency opportunities. Dorcas Casey, Nico Conti and Leora Honeyman were chosen from 25 artists from UK and Ireland exhibiting in BCB’s Fresh exhibition, which celebrates and gives a critical platform for the new wave of makers, artists and designers working in clay as they begin their creative careers.

All the winning artists from AWARD and Fresh will be invited to present new work in the 2023 British Ceramics Biennial.

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In Good Company: Lucille Lewin and Nicole Farhi 5 - 22 October No 7. 78, Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London, W1U 5AE A celebration of the creativity and friendship of Lucille Lewin and Nicole Farhi. The exhibition will showcase new work produced during the lockdowns. Book a place with ‘eventbrite’