Thanks to funding from Wasps (Workspace Artist Studio Provision Scotland), a group of five glass and ceramic artists – Janice Affleck, Ruth Mae Martin, Cath Maskell, Charlott Rodgers and Siân Patterson – all based in Glasgow Ceramics Studios, have just finished a six-week summer exhibition at Perth Creative Exchange, responding to their theme; to re-imagine the everyday domestic.
The artists explore narratives inherent within the domestic realms via familiar objects and experiments in materiality. They examine and challenge traditionally accepted gendered performance inside the home. The translation of difficult emotions, such as sadness and rage, via a vintage tea set that is pushed to breaking point – too full and too hot with foam glass and tableware communicating grief via form and surface treatment.
They also delved into traces that we as humans will leave behind us, both collectively and as individuals. The small items we accumulate – a shell at the beach, old bank cards – are rituals of the domestic and ghosts in the home. And a playful re-imagining of quotidian plastic bottles as ancient artefacts of the future, the exhibition displayed a range of different responses and objects that we will discuss in more detail, as well as delving into the artists’ backgrounds and artistic practices.
Janice Affleck
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