August 23 through November 3, 2024
Culture& x V&A Wedgwood Collection
Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent
UK
Featuring Jacqueline Bishop’sĀ The Keeper of All The Secrets
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
As part of our public programmeĀ Time, Space and EmpireĀ ā a multi-site, cross-arts programme of artist commissions, installations, talks and films that explore the imperial history of Stoke-on-Trent and Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site ā Culture& is working with the V&A Wedgwood Collection on a display of ceramic works by contemporary artist Jacqueline Bishop. The artwork is a 13-piece porcelain table service calledĀ TheĀ Keeper of All the SecretsĀ based on a well-known Caribbean image, theĀ Market Woman. It combines historic botanical illustration and depictions of enslaved West Africans and Indigenous people.
ABOUT TIME, SPACE AND EMPIRE
Culture& is excited to launch Time, Space and EmpireĀ (2024-2025), a multi-site, cross-arts programme exploring the concepts of time, space, and the development of Britainās sea power during the expansion of its former empire in relation to the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site in Southeast London and the Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Programmes include artist interventions in heritage sites, working with community-led organisations to empower underrepresented audiences, and creating research opportunities for diverse talents. The project will also explore how the colonial economy brought changes to what was consumed and considered to be āgood tasteā.
FEATURED ARTWORK
Jacqueline Bishop
The Keeper of All The Secrets (Edition of 3)
2024
digital print on porcelain, gold lustre
12.5″
PROGRAMMING
Museum Late: Time, Space and Empire
A Long Table on Sugar, Tea, Plants and Pottery
Friday, August 23 | 6 – 8pm
ABOUT JACQUELINE BISHOP
b. 1971, Kingston, Jamaica
lives and works in New York, NY
Jacqueline Bishop is an accomplished writer, academic, and visual artist with exhibitions in Belgium, Morocco, Italy, Cape Verde, Niger, USA, and Jamaica. In addition to her role as Clinical Full Professor at New York University, Jacqueline Bishop was a 2020 Dora Maar/Brown Foundation Fellow in France; 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow in Morocco; and 2009-2010 UNESCO/Fulbright Fellow in Paris. Bishop has received several awards, including the OCM Bocas Award for her book āThe Gymnast & Other Positionā, The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short story writing, The Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities from New York University, A James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as several awards from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission. Jacquelineās recent ceramicāÆwork consists of brightly colored bone China plates used symbolically in Caribbean homes and explores how they hid the violent legacy of slavery and colonialism in the Atlantic world.