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2020.10
The Pearl Seller (2020.10)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Matt Smith
Title
The Pearl Seller
Made in
Stockholm
Ireland
Ireland
Date
2020
Description
Found ceramic figure of a man in frock coat with geometric head, with freshwater pearls and slip cast black parian.
Materials and techniques
The found ceramics were originally factory produced, with freshwater pearls and slip cast black parian.
Dimensions
height: 29cm
width: 13cm
depth (base): 30cm
Object number
2020.10
Category
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Matt Smith:2020, winner of the 2020 Brookfield Properties Crafts Council Collection Award exhibition at 99 Bishopsgate. Film by Mandy Kaylin - One City/The City Centre/Digital Content Editor
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Maker's statement
(in reference to 2020.5 - 2020.11, parianware pieces and textiles, which all appeared in Matt Smith:2020 at Brookfields Properties)
The parian pieces reflect an ongoing Investigation Into portraiture and the memorialisation of selected people In history. This work links Intervenion projects In museums which explore queerness, colonisation and homophobia and how edited histories have erased certain ways of being from the record.
By combining high and low value objects, Industrial production with the handmade, hierarchies are questioned and binaries disrupted.
The textiles also play with this erasure. In additional to removing the central figures In the works, the pieces play with the movement from fine art to craft and back to fine art and the movement between genders.
The parian pieces reflect an ongoing Investigation Into portraiture and the memorialisation of selected people In history. This work links Intervenion projects In museums which explore queerness, colonisation and homophobia and how edited histories have erased certain ways of being from the record.
By combining high and low value objects, Industrial production with the handmade, hierarchies are questioned and binaries disrupted.
The textiles also play with this erasure. In additional to removing the central figures In the works, the pieces play with the movement from fine art to craft and back to fine art and the movement between genders.