This online series of talks ‘Ceramics and Lockdown – Performance’ was held on the evening of Friday July 2nd 2021 and explored how ceramics performance adapted during the COVID 19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Developed by Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) Subject Specialist Network at York Art Gallery in partnership with the International Ceramics Festival and supported by Arts Council England, it was part of a sympo
Despite the postponement of the traditional biennial, July 2021 saw the International Ceramics Festival going online for the first time to celebrate clay with ‘REWIND – Over 30 years of the International Ceramics Festival at Aberystwyth’. We teamed up with ‘Culture Colony’, a Machynlleth based film production company to produce a six hour long programme streamed live on Vimeo thoughout Saturday July
ICF Director and 2019 Demonstrator Wendy Lawrence ran a succesful mural glazing workshop throughout the July 3rd 2021 festival day on site at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The 2m long ceramic mural had been created at a previous workshop at The Hub Penparcau (Penparcau Community Centre) in May 2021 with members of the local community in Aberystwyth and the village of Penparcau. Once fired the mural made from a collection
Angela Tait is a mixed media ceramics artist and current PhD researcher at the University of Sunderland and the National Glass Centre. Angela’s practice investigates the relationship between creative practice and domestic obligations. On Saturday July 3rd 2021, Angela created her performance piece ‘Smalls’ at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, a work that plays on the idea of cyclical time through the visual
