Display
STREET DREAMS by CLINK STREET CERAMICS
Our public display in Clink Street has been featured on Ceramic Review. This project, Street Dreams, aims to document and celebrate some of the everyday moments of skateboarding history through a series of ceramic artworks. Skateboarding saw significant changes during the 1980s and 90s, and this project focuses on skateboarding journalism during this vibrant and formative period. The ceramic pieces are all one-off artworks designed and made by studio potter James Sims. They are hand thrown from a variety of clay bodies and use geometric shapes inspired by the curves of skateparks and street ledges, rails, and steps. Through in depth research into 1980s and 90s skateboarding magazines, a series of ceramic transfers are used to celebrate these everyday moments often lost from documented skateboarding history.
Our display cabinet on Clink Street is seen by up to 70,000 people a day walking along the Thames Path. This space presents a programme of displays throughout the year that tell many stories of craft and making.
Exhibition
“GREYSCALE” at Max Radford Gallery
16th - 24h September 2023
Clink Street Ceramics is pleased to be exhibiting a selection of our “Clink Street ‘88” ceramic pieces at a new exhibition at Max Radord Gallery. The hand-thrown vessels explore an unlikely series of Acid House raves and parties in Clink Street that changed the face of youth culture in the UK.
‘Greyscale’ is the first show of a group of artists and designers that are new to Max Radford Gallery. For this show the Gallery has sought to look beyond the usual parameters of design and into the work of object-based creative practices. A group of fourteen creatives whom the Gallery has been following have been asked to contribute to the show.
The show features work from: Andrew Pierce Scott, Natalia Triantafylli, Victor Nyberg, Grace Prince, Tom Bull, Gillies Adamson Semple, George Richardson, Georgia Merritt, LS GOMMA, Ty Locke, Sofia Bordin, Louie Isaaman-Jones, Fred Thomson and Clink Street Ceramics.
Max Radford Gallery has always sought to exhibit works that experiment with the parameters of design, alongside a continuous examination of the fine art world within London. Its suggestion of design objects and domestic space-based narratives has driven a need to show works from both art and design within the same space.
The title Greyscale, alludes to a series of tones ranging from black to white that encompasses the Gallery's approach to the fields of art and design; they can become a spectrum that can be navigated and explored as one volume. This approach can also be applied to a single practice where one's creative realisations can register in both fields, neither being mutually exclusive.
Max Radford Gallery is keen to show a product-focused design world where adjacent areas of creativity can be ignored or othered, despite its broader impact on design.
The Gallery seeks to reveal areas of design to an arts world that may have resigned it to merely clever solutions.
Max Radford Gallery will continue to work within these grey areas and looks forward to bringing further multidisciplinary shows to London in the future.
Photos credit: Teo Della Torre
