Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art
29 January – 24 April 2022
Two Temple Place, London
Free
Group of pots by Magdalene Odundo DBE. Courtesy of York Museums Trust
From Saturday 29 January - Sunday 24 April, Two Temple Place will showcase work by three generations of Black women artists working with clay.
From the seminal potter Ladi Kwali in 1950s Nigeria, to experimental new works by women of colour working today, we celebrate surprising new ways of exploring one of the world’s oldest artforms.
Through the exhibition, ceramics are shown to be disrupted, questioned and reimagined over the last 70 years, bringing together more than 80 works including ceramics, preparatory drawings, film and archival material, and tracing post-colonial, gender and class perspectives on ceramics, manufacture and ownership across continents.
Work on display will come from Vivian Chinasa Ezugha, Ladi Kwali, Phoebe Collings-James, Shawanda Corbett, Jade Montserrat, Bisila Noha and Magdalene Odundo.
Set in the stunning interiors of our neo-Gothic venue, new perspectives on gender, race and influence will be accompanied by a busy programme of talks, events, workshops, evening opening and learning activities.
The exhibition is curated by independent curator, researcher and writer Dr Jareh Das.
Plan your visit:
Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD
Open Monday - Sunday from 10-5pm
For more information, please visit twotempleplace.org
About Two Temple Place
Two Temple Place is a dazzling central London neo-Gothic gem, built for William Waldorf Astor in the 1890s. Astor emigrated to England from America in 1891 as the richest man in the world, commissioning John Loughborough Pearson to build his office, and its wildly opulent interiors provide a vivid narrative of the eccentric Astor and the remarkable craftsmen who made it. In 2011, Two Temple Place became the first London venue to showcase publicly owned UK collections in major free exhibitions. Owned by the Bulldog Trust, the venue commissions and presents new cultural projects.
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