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Equestrian Ridge tile research in St Ives
file:///Users/debraesloan/Desktop/E%20Skinner’s%20hotel.jpg Once I had arrived and started my research on these equestrian tiles, I was told that there were three other equestrian tiles in St Ives. The common knowledge was that Leach had made these three equestrian tiles as well … Continue reading
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Artist in Residence at the Leach Pottery in St Ives
In 2013 Julia Twomlow, Director of the Leach Pottery invited me to come to St Ives, as an Artist in Residence, to respond to this ridge tile made by Bernard Leach. It had been placed on a roof in Carbis … Continue reading
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‘Midnight in the Nursery’ exhibit Oct. 14 – Nov. 7 2010
Debra spotted Marcia’s wild red shoes on the first day of their children’s preschool. They have remained friends ever since. As artists they recognized a similar undercurrent in their distinctly different art practices.
This exhibition dwells on the shadowed side of childhood, and the impetus is experience and memory. These constructions, disquieting and humorous, come out of the artists’ own experience, and are accelerated by witnessing their children’s.
Sometimes there is no peace in the dark. The nursery is not always a refuge at midnight.
Debra’s Statement:
The nursery is a metaphor for the realm of childhood.
We hope that the nursery is a safe and good place but we remember that it is also where fear, sorrow and conflict occur.
My babies are a metaphor for us, and the infant within each of us that marks our beginning and remains with us till our end. Childhood is a precarious place, and ceramics and childhood both exist in a state of fragility
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