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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Sunderland
Parallax View - a solo exhibition and book
A commission to respond to The Williamson Collection at Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery. The collection consists of over 800 pieces of historical ceramics and this research explores a contemporary interpretation of the objects from the collection.
Through the production of twelve pieces of work including four large-scale installations, ceramic pieces, photography, film and mixed media, the works juxtapose objects from the museum collection with readymade and constructed elements.
Through the employment of digital print, photography, film, animation and CCTV, the work examines the interface between ceramics and digital-media and as a consequence the notion of conceptual ceramics and the expanded field.
Presented in a solo exhibition at Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery (6 March-9 May 2010), supported by Carlisle City Council and Arts Council England), the work was also disseminated through the conference paper and proceedings ‘Parallax View: Interpreting Ceramics – Museum Collections and Artist Intervention’, presented at ICMEA in China, to a delegation of international scholars, examining and contextualising the work contained within the exhibition, together with an expanded dialogue and critique which explores the trichotomous relationship between artist, museum and collection.
The research paper was published in Ceramics Ireland (Issue 27), a contemporary international journal, and the leading Korean ceramics journal Monthly Ceramic Art, (June 2010).
The book ‘Parallax View’ (AEN publications, ISBN: 978-1-906832-05-6) contextualizes the exhibition both through a documentation of the practical work and investigation of the work through a series of critical essays. Individual artworks have also been exhibited in ‘Subversive Design’ Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, and the British Ceramics Biennial. The artwork ‘Postmodern Animal’ was awarded the Jurors prize at the Taiwan Ceramics Biennial 2012 and also received the peoples award, the work was acquired for the permanent collection at the Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei.
