Culture& x V&A Wedgwood Collection, 23 August – 3 November 2024
Programme Booklet | TimeStoke-on-Trent
Opening Night & Museum Late: A Long Table on Sugar, Tea, Plants and Pottery
23 August 2024, V&A Wedgwood Collection Welcome Space
We would like to thank everyone who joined us at Culture&’s Time, Space and Empire events in Stoke-on-Trent. Special thanks to V&A Wedgwood Collection, the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Gabriella Gay, and artist Jacqueline Bishop.
Photo Credit: Sonska Studio.
On 23 August, the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. The public joined us at the Long Table for discussions exploring Staffordshire’s histories of slavery and abolition with the artist of The Keeper of All The Secrets herself, Jacqueline Bishop as well as a wide range of participants from Stoke-on-Trent and surrounding areas.The Keeper of All The Secrets was featured on the 23 August edition of the Stoke Sentinel. The artworks is on view at V&A Wedgwood Collection until 3 November before travelling to London’s in early 2025.
Stoke-on-TrentJacqueline Bishop: Fauna Poetry Reading 24 August, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery: Entrance and Ceramics Gallery  Visitors joined artist Jacqueline Bishop for a poetry reading with Q&A and lively discussion on the position of black women in Caribbean society explored through her poetry and ceramics. Bishop read from her first collection of poems published in 2006, titled Fauna, which uses Caribbean flowers as metaphors to explore the lives of enslaved women. Photo Credit: Sonska Studio. |
Stoke-on-TrentA Long Table on Sugar, Tea, Plants and Pottery 24 August, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery: Entrance and Ceramics Gallery  The public joined the artist of The Keeper of All The Secrets herself, Jacqueline Bishopat, at the Long Table for discussions exploring the broad theme of exchanging knowledge: Sugar, tea , plants and pottery. Photo Credit: Sonska Studio. |
Stoke-on-TrentClay Craft and Chat with Emma Price and Gabriella Gay Saturday 24 August, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery: Entrance and Ceramics Gallery
Take inspiration from Jacqueline Bishop’s work to explore women’s relationship to nature. Experience a short poetry dance film by Cynthia Coady based on the experiences of black and brown women walking in Staffordshire. Take a creative walk with artist Daby Obiechfu and poet Gabriella Gay to collect botanical inspiration to make a cyanotype print on repurposed cotton. There’ll be time for sewing and conversation at the ‘Long Table’. No experience of sewing, embroidery or cyanotype printing needed. Inspired by Jacqueline Bishop’s new ceramic display we’ll use recycled fabric, flora and photo negatives to create a cyanotype print in this drop-in workshop. Explore pattern and composition in this exciting process with artist and milliner Holly Johnson. Photo Credit: Sonska Studio. |
Stoke-on-TrentFuture Fest: Botanical Walk and Cyanotype Craft Workshops Saturday 31 August, World of WedgwoodArtists: Cynthia Coady, Daby Obiechfu, Gabriella Gay, Holly Johnson, Emma Price  As part of Time, Space and Empire, the workshops took inspiration from Jacqueline Bishop’s work to explore women’s relationship to nature. Visitors experienced a short poetry dance film by Cynthia Coady based on the experiences of Black and Brown women walking in Staffordshire and took a creative walk with artist Daby Obiechfu and poet Gabriella Gay to collect botanical inspiration to make a cyanotype print on repurposed cotton. The cyanotype print drop-in workshop was lead by artist and milliner Holly Johnson. Photo Credit: Sonska Studio. |