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Ceramic artists: top trail-glazers breaking the mould
Ceramic artists: top trail-glazers breaking the mould
Contemporary ceramic artists are firing up the canon into a new age
Lubna Chowdhary,
Certain Times VIII, 2019
Ceramics and art have a companionship longer than most. In a story that began in the Palaeolithic period, this potent fusion of water, earth and creativity has evolved through many modes. 21st-century artists are proving that ceramics has as much potential for concept as function, lured to the medium for its versatility, sensuality and role as a platform for provocation.
From artists upholding age-old techniques with a twist, to those unearthing radical ways to push materials to their limits, these are the trail-glazers, the mould-breakers and future-shapers on the cutting edge of ceramic art.
Lubna Chowdhary
The London-based artist Lubna Chowdhary’s new work explores the intersection between spiritual iconographies and the language of consumerism, with its symbols and logos
Code switch. The word doesn’t immediately call to mind a work of art; in fact, in linguistics, code-switching is when ‘a speaker alternates between two or more languages in the context of a single conversation’. But for Lubna Chowdhary, 57, it is vital to her artistic practice to find common ground between “various binaries such as art and craft, East and West, industrial and handmade, ornamental excess and minimal restraint” and her identity as a member of the Diaspora.