Clay Is My Canvas - Exhibition

20TH JANUARY - 07TH APRIL 2024, Curated by Nick Duxbury

OPENING TIMES
Monday - 9am - 5pm
Tuesday - 10am - 5pm
Wednesday - 9am - 5pm
Thursday - 9am - 5pm
Friday - 9am - 5pm
Saturday - 9am - 5pm
Sunday - 10am - 4pm

FREE

Explorations of how contemporary ceramic artists use painterly or illustrative techniques on clay are few and far between; in studies of ceramics these elements often get dismissed as merely ‘decoration’, even when looking at Italian maiolica made during the Renaissance or the painted ceramics of Picasso or Marc Chagall. The nature of under-glaze, slip, lustre and glazes give an artist a myriad of possibilities to deploy techniques from painting and illustration on a clay canvas, with several artists slipping seamlessly between painting on canvas and painting on clay.

Some of the artists featured, like Rafaela de Ascanio and Tom Norris, are completely comfortable drifting between clay and other materials, including painting on canvas and working with textiles, as part of their wider artistic practice. The perceived boundaries that existed between a hierarchy of mediums as recently as the late 1990s are being erased by the next generation of artists.

Featured artists
Nehal Aamir / Jesse Albrecht / Rafaela de Ascanio / Megan Burridge/ Claire Curneen / Emily Gibbard / Jihye Han / Yeonsoo Kim / Eddie Knevett / Tom Norris / Jasmine Simpson / Ian Thompson

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Alt Image Text: An infographic with two clay creations and the text - Clay Is My Canvas, 20th Jan 2024 - 7th April 2024 New Brewery Arts, Cirencester

Image Credit: Emily Gibbard