A new special exhibition at York Art Gallery this summer is displaying artworks by three generations of black women artists working with clay.
Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art spans 70 years of ceramics in a ground-breaking exhibition.
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Visitors will be able to see works from Nigerian pioneer potter Ladi Kwali and her contemporaries, and international contemporary artists including Bisila Noha, Dame Magdalene Odundo and Jade Montserrat.
In Body Vessel Clay, the artists explore race, gender, colonialism, the body, and the vessel, as well as how their work with clay challenges the perceptions of clay as a medium.
The aim of this exhibition is to shine new light on under-profiled collections and the contributions made by black women artists and ceramists at its core through a visually exciting show.
Curator Dr Jareh Das, said: “Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art celebrates an intergeneration of cross-disciplinary artists working with clay, all of whom upend ways of working with the medium both conceptually and traditionally.
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"The exhibition begins with seminal Nigerian potter Ladi Kwali (1925-1984) tracing the connection between Nigerian pottery and traditions of British studio pottery during the 1950s to 1970s.
"Importantly, it centres on matrilineal passing down of such traditions, women to women, within communities in Nigeria and extending across the globe.”
Alongside Body Vessel Clay will be the Aesthetica Art Prize, a platform for the world’s best artists.
The award celebrates contemporary art in all its forms, taking the temperature of creativity today.
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