An exhibition of new ceramics from Fine Art Students at Newcastle University, created in response to the John Christian collection at the Shipley.

Title of work: Fate Lines

Name of Collection Object/artist: Tall Stoneware Vessel/Susan Disley

Artist Statement: Thinking of the unusual mark making on the surface of Disley’s vase as a kind of music score, language or code led me to consider my own personal symbols which I used to create a logographic language. After hand building my vase, I mimicked the horizontal rings of Disley’s piece and placed symbols in between them using sgraffito. I made people going around the vase and connected their paths with lines. I thought about them as lines of fate leading them towards and away from each other and wondered what significance the symbols around them had.

https://www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/shipley/refracted-commentary