Fixing Light - Fixing Fire

Abstract

A solo exhibition developed and curated by David Jones, working in collaboration with: Rod Dorling, art and architectural photographer, Leamington Spa; and John Bell, theatre and exhibitions designer. The overarching idea of the exhibition was to investigate the relationship between Eastern and Western ceramic cultures on the example of raku. More specifically, the research underlying the exhibition addressed the question of how to exhibit contemporary western raku so as to elicit its ties to historical and aesthetic traditions in the East. To this end, the exhibition was designed to display the work of Jones, and to contextualise it through the photography of Dorling to make explicit its relationship to, and its advance from the historical raku ceramic process and philosophy.