National Museum of Wales: Fragile Exhibition
Published on 10.06.15
Our final destination today was the National Museum of Wales to see ‘Fragile’, an ambitious and interesting contemporary ceramic show with the aim of providing the audience with an opportunity to ‘experience ceramics in a different and surprising way’. The three ceramic installations commissioned by the museum indeed set out to achieve this aim, Clare
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Our final destination today was the National Museum of Wales to see ‘Fragile’, an ambitious and interesting contemporary ceramic show with the aim of providing the audience with an opportunity to ‘experience ceramics in a different and surprising way’.
The three ceramic installations commissioned by the museum indeed set out to achieve this aim, Clare Twomey notably providing a floor of bone china tiles which allow the audience to walk across and break under foot. The exhibition curator Andrew Renton speaks about the show as exploring the contradiction between two of ceramics inherent qualities- durability and fragility.
However, for most of us on the trip, our time was spent watching four films documenting the Welsh based ceramicists Claire Curneen, Walter Keeler, Lowri Davies and Adam Buick in their studios and workshops making a piece of work which had been commissioned by the museum for the exhibition. Each maker’s process, their hands on the clay patting, tapping and forming was both mesmerising and magical.
