The purpose of the show is to combine old and new, showing contemporary work in a collection of old ceramics using a culmination commissioned works for the show and a collection of preexisting art.
Upon entry to the show the free hand out booklets are offered, and after speaking with Anne de Charmant (Director of Meadow Arts), she enlightened me as to the reason they provided free handouts. This is so the exhibition and individual artist pieces within it have minimal interpretation so keeping specific focus on the intended concept.
Each artist works had it's own chapter to tell within the overall space but personally if I were to highlight the similarities most artists have used the medium of porcelain, as an encounter for their practise, which is then passed forward for the audience who may be new to contemporary art.
By working in a public space which already has a directed focus means the addition of contemporary art within the venue requires a new audience to engage through the facilitated encounter. This I feel is a value of meadow arts as an organisation,making art not only accessible to all but also engaging a sense of discover through a mutual connection of audience and art.
The show play homage to the skills of historical porcelain work and highlights the need to rescue a trade by raising status of the past worker and giving porcelain a modern value through the contemporary art.
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