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Deviants Peer Into the Subversive World of Craft
Deviants is an exhibition of 16 curious pieces from the Crafts Council’s Collection that deviate wildly from what we think of as traditional craft. These pieces are by ten of the UK’s leading craft makers, including Jill Crowley, Carol McNicoll, Richard Slee and Hans Stofer All of the makers on show are highly skilled in the age-old techniques of their particular craft, yet skills in the hands of these maverick makers become utilised in very different and unusual ways. We are presented with playful, mischievous and bizarre aberrations of familiar objects; teapots with legs, an unfurling jug, a pot with ears or a glove with 25 fingers. The ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the functional becomes the dysfunctional. Accompanying the exhibition is an alternative gallery guide written by the Dundee-based writer and artist The Lonely Piper. Through his own musings and imaginative stories about each piece, The Lonely Piper captures the unconventional essence of these deviant objects. For him, Henry Pim’s A Pot with Ears “spies on its owner by covertly eavesdropping on conversation”, Hans Stofer’s Grape Trap “portrays a grape imprisoned for the crime of being not green enough” and Angus Suttie’s Teapot is “a painted clay celebration that’s not for the prudish of nature” Deviants delights and disarms in equal measure and provokes many different reactions; a chuckle, a squirm, a quizzical look. Whatever the reaction, this subversive face of craft challenges us to look at objects with new eyes and set our imaginations free.
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
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