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Work and play
Kerry Harker’s practice takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the making of visual art, reflecting new developments in the broader creative field, where fashion, craft, music, film and other disciplines are moving closer together into a new category of ‘cultural production’.
Her current work on show at Saltburn Artists’ Projects has a particular focus on ceramics, painting and the relative status attributed to each. In the West, ceramics has been often been perceived as a poor relation to the high art of painting: however Harker is interested in alternative views of these objects, particularly how they are perceived in Japan.
The exhibition combines a mini-retrospective of unlimited editions with a new ceramic installation. The editions, including t-shirts mounted facing a mirror with the word ‘narcissist’ written backwards across the front, and a bronze cast of piggy bank interior, will be displayed against walls painted magenta, aqua and canary yellow. The Summer Palace installation consists of forty text-adorned white domestic plates mounted on a background of highly floral wallpaper, designed to subvert the audience’s perception of ceramic practice.
The exhibition runs until July 22.
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