I was so chuffed to see my former critical theory tutor at CSM, Kate Love, at the PV of Nautical Perspectives the other evening. As everyone knows, PVs are mainly about talking so luckily I was over my sore throat. I got to know a few members of the Plastic Propaganda Collective and met co-a-n-blogger Sarah Needham.
As a venue, Devon House is pretty impressive in size (we are in the ground floor reception area) and, it goes without saying, location. Apart from any other reason such as, namely, centrality, the location means that non-artist partners of artist friends are happy to come along, if only because they get to see the boats. For my parents, who gamely made the effort to get there with me, despite not being able to walk so well any more, the location made it more of a nice day out!
The image of my work, Shipped #4, is by Dani Tagen.
So pleased, one of the mono prints shown in my earlier post has been selected for Nautical Perspectives, an exhibition at St Katherine’s Docks in London in May.
More details to follow.
I have been continuing with the mono printing and am still using forms and imagery relating to Nonya ware imported from China by the Straits Chinese Community in the former British Colony of Malaya and to Chinese shipwrecked export porcelain as in my earlier installation piece, Inherited.
The ceramic vessel is a metaphor for interiority as well as real object in the world. The theme has autobiographical relevance as similar items owned by my family are also highly symbolic markers of key ceremonial dates such as anniversaries and birthdays and I did ceramics as an A level, rather a long time ago now.
Another collage using discarded pieces of work, ghost prints and tracings, cut up or torn and re-ordered. The fragments are parts of a disjunctive narrative, brought together in a way that “feels right”.
