Re-Apprenticed. Exhibited in - Cont{R}act Earth. First Central China International Ceramics Biennale

Dissemination context:
‘Relic’ – a mixed media and film work that originated out of Re-Apprenticed (first shown at the British Ceramics Biennial 2015), was selected to represent the UK in Cont{r}act Earth, The First Central China International Ceramics Biennale (2016). Writer and critic Dr Wendy Gers curated Relic to negotiate the exhibitions sub-theme of ‘Global Ceramics Legacies’, which deals with ceramic heritage and our relationship with the past and post-industrial ceramics situations in the West. Cont{r}act Earth represented an expansive survey of contemporary art from leading international artists and designers and was grounded in contemporary artistic investigations of our Anthropocene age, the earth, and relationships with our environment. The exhibition represented 42 installations by 50 artists from 20 countries.

Relic comprised of five lead and wood plinths that present taxonomies of china clay flowers deconstructed to arrest sequences of haptic knowledge, together with a film loop demonstrating the nuances of ceramic colour preparation.