Chelsea College of Arts Postgraduate Show

5 Jul-9 Jul 2022

Overview

Gallery: Who Has Seen the Wind? Women and Ceramics
Online: Playtime.Commodity
Curated by MA Curating and Collections Students 2021-22

We are happy to support a new generation of arts specialists with the two exhibitions, Who Has Seen the Wind? Women and Ceramics, and Playtime.Commodity curated by MA Curating and Collections students from Chelsea College of Art, UAL, hosted at Chelsea Space.

In the gallery, Who Has Seen the Wind? Women and Ceramics, considers the transformative power of ceramics as a perpetual space of rebirth and unity. Featuring a range of twentieth-century potters, ceramists, and designers from The Camberwell Inner London Educational Authority (ILEA) Collection, the exhibition presents a dialogue with contemporary artists to explore the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, and sexuality within feminism.

Inspired by the poem “Who Has Seen the Wind?” by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), the exhibition is divided into three chapters: ‘Whisper’, ‘Echo’, and ‘Chorus’ to embody the idea of wind as the voices of women projected throughout history. The exhibition offers a physical illustration of the vessel as a cultural carrier bag to embody feminist spaces and celebrate underrepresented female voices.

Who Has Seen the Wind? features: Susie Cooper, Francine Delpierre, Ruth Duckworth, Beate Kuhn, Helen Pincombe, Lucie Rie, Mary Rogers, Mollie Winterburn and Denise Wren from the Camberwell Inner London Educational Authority (ILEA) Collection with contemporary artists, Sarah Forrest, Clementine Keith-Roach, Bisila Noha, and Rose Schmits.