Miller, A (2017) Creative geographies of ceramic artists: knowledges and experiences of landscape, practices of art and skill. Social & Cultural Geography, 18 (2). pp. 245-267. ISSN 1464-9365
Abstract
This paper argues for a conception of art as an embodied and creative material practice. It draws on research conducted with seven professional ceramic artists who deal with landscape in their work to explore their processes of art-making through interview and (filmed) observation. It demonstrates the distributed range of embodied and relational more-than-artistic practices which inform how landscape is encountered, known and ultimately represented. It argues that artists’ self-expression in art is based upon material, social and political knowledges which interweave in artists’ lives. By studying ceramicists’ making this paper demonstrates both the non-conscious skill and the conscious technical knowledge needed to make art. It shows chance to have a triple role in practices of making, as something to work alongside, to work against and to draw on as a creative resource. This paper both argues for and demonstrates the value of an approach to art-making that frames it as a complex of both conscious, socio-cultural, technical knowledges and non-conscious skills which together (in)form works of (ceramic) art.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Art; ceramics; craft; landscape; practice; skill |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2016 10:55 |
Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2017 14:55 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1171390 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14649365.2016.1171390 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100767 |