First shown in Whitechapel Gallery in 2011 and on loan from the British Council Collection, artist Alan Kane presents a floor-to-ceiling display of a forgotten moment of popular craft revival. The 1960s and ‘70s saw resurgence in traditional wheel-thrown, glazed stone and slipware pottery in the typical rustic earthy tones of that era.


Oriel Myrddin Gallery invites you to join in and contribute your own once loved but now abandoned pots to the exhibtion - rummage in your cupboards, and scour the charity shops for the odd, the ugly and the unusual - Oriel Myrddin Gallery will be collecting your unloved pots to give them some love and attention in the limelight of the exhibition.

 

Visit the gallery from now until May to donate a piece of ceramic ware to be part of the installation. Once the exhibition is over, your donation will become a permanent part of the British Council's Home for Orphaned Dishes collection.

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Glossary

  • Craft

    The creation of handmade objects intended to be both useful and decorative.

  • Installation

    An artwork comprised of many and various elements of miscellaneous materials (see mixed media), light and sound, which is conceived for and occupies an entire space, gallery or site. The viewer can often enter or walk around the installation. Installations may only exist as long as they are installed, but can be re-created in different sites. Installation art emerged in the 1960s out of Environmental Art (works of art which are three-dimensional environments), but it was not until the 1970s that the term came into common use and not until the late 1980s that artists started to specialise in this kind of work, creating a genre of ‘Installation Art’. The term can also be applied to the arrangement of selected art works in an exhibition.