VICTORIA JARDINE. SKÅL.

Keramik med scraffito dekoration och bronsglasyr, 18,5 cm diam.

Victoria Jardine:
After teaching Ceramics for some years, Victoria completed a Theory/ Practice MA in Applied Art and Visual Culture at the John Cass School of Art, London and established her own ceramics practice in 2001. In Autumn 2003, she was selected as a Professional Member of the Craft Potters’ Association. Alongside this she continued to fuel her interest in Applied Art Theory, teaching Museum Studies at London Metropolitan University, here examining the ways in which the meanings of objects can change as we move them through different environments... from home to museum or studio to gallery.
“When potters talk about pots we use very anthropormorphic language. A pot has a foot, belly, neck, shoulder and lip. These very ‘human’ references describe something of the way we relate to pots. They reveal an ancient relationship between mankind and vessels, a notion of ‘pot’ that vibrates through every culture from the moment we first learned to shape mud with our hands.”
Victoria’s work is hand built, predominantly coiled and sits firmly within a Western tradition of Studio Ceramics which concerns itself almost exclusively with an exploration of the vessel form. This restricted cannon, far from being limiting, allows a great deal to be said. “I think of my pots as feminine. In part this is the femininity of a form that exists to be filled and emptied, in part the intimacy of an object that is made for home, but mostly this is about the actual forms themselves. My notion of ‘belly’ is replaced with that of ‘corset’ and the heavy, grounded ‘foot’ that we find at the base of many pots is set ‘on point’ allowing each piece to lift away from the table in a moment of weightlessness. A pirouette.”
In 2020 Victoria was shortlisted for the RWA Academy Award.

Publications:

Victoria has written on the place of Ceramics in Contemporary Culture and has had articles published in Crafts Magazine and The Reflective Practitioner, edited by Linden Reilly.
Victoria has appeared in:
Fifty Dorset Makers, 2017, Edited by Simon Olding and Suzy Rushbrook
The Art Of Ceramics, Michael Harvey, 2016
The Ceramics Book, a collector's guide to British Studio Ceramics in 2006 as well as in subsequent editions in 2008 and 2012

Recent Exhibitions:

February 2021 Arts in Hospital, Dorchester County Hospital
December 2020 Shortlisted for the RWA Academy Award, Bristol
October 2020 Selected for Oxford Ceramics, Oxford
July 2020 Marshwood Gallery
March 2019 Making Dorset, The Furleigh Estate
July 2017 Making Dorset, 50 Dorset Makers, Dorchester
October 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Sarah Sclater Art at Home, Dorset
August - December 2016, Contemporary Ceramics Centre, London.