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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery, London

October 31, 2022
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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery, London
Installation view of Betty Woodman and Jonathan Baldock, Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy the Hayward Gallery
Takuro Kuwata
Brie Ruais, Ken Price, Beate Kuhn
David Zink Yi and Salvatore Arancio
Shahpour Pouyan
Salvatore Arancio, Serena Korda, David Zink Yi
Woody De Othello
Klara Kristalova
Lindsey Mendick
Jonathan Baldock and Rachel Kneebone
Betty Woodman
Edmund de Waal
Lindsey Mendick
Installation views, Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery. Photos by Mark Blower. Courtesy the Hayward Gallery

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art is on view at the Hayward Gallery, London

October 26, 2022 – January 8, 2023

The Hayward Gallery presents Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways.

Featuring 23 international artists working across recent decades, the exhibition examines the plasticity and the possibilities of ceramics. The artworks on show encompass fantastical creatures and uncanny representations of the everyday, as well as ranging from small abstract works to large-scale installations that take the medium beyond the kiln.

Strange Clay explores the possibilities of thinking through making. The artworks vary in scale, finish and technique, and address topics that range from architecture, to social justice, the body, the domestic and the organic. While contributing to the broadening dialogue between art and craft, this exhibition provides a closer look at this tactile medium.

“A garden of weird and wonderful delights”
★★★★★ The Telegraph

“A bonkers, often beautiful, frequently eye-boggling show.”
★★★★ The Times

“A testament to this extraordinary, humble material”
★★★★ Evening Standard

Given the recent surge of interest in ceramics by artists around the world, as well as countless people who enjoy sculpting clay as a pastime, Strange Clay offers a timely reflection on this vital and popular medium. Featuring 23 international and multi-generational artists, from ceramic legends Betty Woodman, Beate Kuhn, Ron Nagle and Ken Price, to a new generation of artists pushing the boundaries of ceramics today, the exhibition will explore the expansive potential of clay through a variety of playful as well as socially-engaged artworks.

Curated by Dr Cliff Lauson, Strange Clay will feature eccentric abstract sculptures, large immersive installations, fantastical otherworldly figures and uncanny evocations of everyday objects. The artworks vary in scale, finish and technique, and address topics that range from architecture to social justice, the body, the domestic, the political and the organic. Regardless of background or route into the material, all of the artists in the exhibition celebrate the sheer possibility and versatility of clay.

In a brand new commission for the exhibition, titled Till Death Do Us Part (2022), Lindsey Mendick explores the domestic realm as a site of conflicts and negotiations. A reflection on the ambivalence of domestic settings and relationships, the home is represented as a battleground where vermin infiltrate every corner of the house.

David Zink Yi’s giant ceramic squid, Untitled (Architeuthis) (2010) sprawls across the floor of the gallery, spanning more than 4.8 metres and lying in what appears to be a pool of its own ink. Fascinated by the extreme biological differences between humans and squids, he explores the relationship between myth-making and the construction of identity.

In his ceramics sculptures, Takuro Kuwata radically reinterprets the shape of a traditional Japanese tea bowl or chawan – a vessel used to prepare and make tea for traditional ceremonies. Greatly varying in scale, the artist’s sculptures are glazed with elaborate colours and textures that evoke organic forms, pushing traditional techniques to create something entirely unique and surprising.

Fantastical creatures are displayed in a botanical installation from Klara Kristalova, featuring plants and ceramic sculptures. Roots, moss, grass and branches evoke the forest surrounding the artist’s studio in the Swedish wilderness and the woodland setting of fairy tales.

Woody De Othello’s surreal clay sculptures modify the shapes of traditional household objects into over-sized, twisted and sometimes anthropomorphic forms. With his distinct approach to ceramics, Othello reimagines the mundane with a humorous twist while offering a serious reflection on society and race.

Strange Clay features works by Aaron Angell, Salvatore Arancio, Leilah Babirye, Jonathan Baldock, Lubna Chowdhary, Edmund de Waal, Emma Hart, Liu Jianhua, Rachel Kneebone, Serena Korda, Klara Kristalova, Beate Kuhn, Takuro Kuwata, Lindsey Mendick, Ron Nagle, Magdalene Odundo, Woody De Othello, Grayson Perry, Shahpour Pouyan, Ken Price, Brie Ruais, Betty Woodman and David Zink Yi.

Brie Ruais
David Zink Yi and Aaron Angell
Emma Hart
David Zink Yi and Rachel Kneebone
Grayson Perry
Jonathan Baldock
Klara Kristalova
Klara Kristalova
Klara Kristalova
Lindsey Mendick
Ken Price, Brie Ruais, Beate Kuhn
Leilah Babirye
Lindsey Mendick
Lindsey Mendick
Lindsey Mendick
Lindsey Mendick
Lindsey Mendick
Liu Jianhua
Liu Jianhua
Lubna Chowdhary
Magdalene Odundo
Ron Nagle
Salvatore Arancio
Woody De Othello
Rachel Kneebone
Shahpour Pouyan
Takuro Kuwata
Salvatore Arancio
Takuro Kuwata

Dr Cliff Lauson, Curator of Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, says: “Strange Clay brings together some of the most exciting artists working in ceramics in recent years. Using innovative methods and techniques, they push the medium to its physical and conceptual limits, producing imaginative artworks that surprise and provoke in equal measure.”

Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery, says: “Vibrant, playful and provocative, Strange Clay brings together a diverse range of artists – from across the world as well as the UK – whose work is inventively redefining the place of ceramics in contemporary art. Their work celebrates the medium’s special characteristics in order to explore an array of timely concerns.”

Strange Clay is at the Hayward Gallery until Sunday 8 January 2023. Book tickets at southbankcentre.co.uk

Tickets are £15. £5 tickets are available for under 30s and Lambeth Residents. Under 12s go free. The exhibition is open every Wednesday – Sunday with late night openings on Wednesdays.

Contact
hello@southbankcentre.co.uk

Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
United Kingdom

All photos by Mark Blower. Courtesy the Hayward Gallery

Tags: Aaron AngellBeate KuhnBetty WoodmanBrie RuaisDavid Zink YiEdmund de WaalEmma HartGrayson PerryHayward GalleryJonathan BaldockKen PriceKlara KristalovaLeilah BabiryeLindsey MendickLiu JianhuaLondonLubna ChowdharyMagdalene OdundoRachel KneeboneRon NagleSalvatore ArancioSerena KordaShahpour PouyanSouthbank CentreStrange ClayTakuro KuwataWoody De Othello

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