Real World Ceramics: Tiara Tanah
A two-week residency at the Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF) in Indonesia (2020), organised by the West Java West Yorkshire Co-operative Movement (JaF and Pavilion, Leeds), as part of the Crafting Futures project (funded by British Council and Crafts Council).
The aim of the residency was to explore what type of ceramic objects could be made by young women to express and explore the contemporary challenges they face. Drawing on the architectural ceramic heritage of both Leeds and Jatiwangi, this became the focus of my enquiry.
Through a series of hands-on workshops which explored ideas about the built environment and everyday life, the young women’s significant and daily journeys were translated into profiles which were used to develop a capping or coping. The journey profiles also informed the designs for proposed walls to be built using the tiles and coping stones in the grounds of a local government office.
