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...In Marston’s version of Atonement, the redemption-seeking Briony is a choreographer, rewriting history on stage, with Ballett Zürich’s ensemble as “her clay”....
...The New York-based artist Jacqueline Bishop subverts these narratives, bringing the Black experience to the fore. “I love the history of telling stories on porcelain,” she says....
...“Checkerboard can sit in any space and be manipulated around any shape,” says artist Jacqueline de la Fuente, founder of De La Jardin, who paints her papier-mâché Onsen vases (£340) with irregular squares...
...This ancient lost-wax casting technique, developed in the Ashanti region of southern Ghana, involves carving a model in beeswax that is then encased in a clay and charcoal mould....
...Little more than air and paper-thin, they were indeed made of paper, dipped in slip (clay and water) and glaze....
...Gagosian currently has a ceramic show, Fire and Clay, at its gallery in Geneva....
...The rare discovery, which HS2 dubbed the “Ruislip Bed”, is a layer of thick black clay believed to have been formed from wooded marshes on the edge of a sub-tropical sea during the Paleocene era....
...Clay could do with anger-management classes but his fiery personality makes this a one-session rocket of a thriller....
...Originally inexpensive, the editions are now highly collectable – the rarest pieces, such as a double-sided plate called “Profil de Jacqueline”, can fetch more than £100,000....
...It has a blackish-blue ground enlivened by muted colour accents encrusted into a thick, granulated, earthy surface: the influence of modelling and engraving clay, which Chagall called an art of the earth...
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