Working from home

I can’t slipcast from home but I have managed to do a few things. This coiled pot was made for my coiling demonstrations in my classes and I finally…months later got around to decorating it. The clay is a white stoneware with a black slip, the carved design is based on a local folklore about Lady Sybil and the White Doe. I am working towards a exhibition next year, so if this fires okay this maybe the first piece towards it.

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My Bee Pot has gone on loan

From this week my Bee Pot will be on display for 6 months at Cliffe Castle in Keighley. It’s a fantastic place to visit and the pot was inspired by their collections. You can also see my Bradford Boar Pot at Platform Gallery in Clitheroe until January 2019.

Cliffe Castle, Keighley BD20 6LQ

Cliffe Castle Bee Pot

My exhibition opens 7 July at Platform Gallery

Women in British History 

7 July – 15 September

Women In British History - An exhibition of works by Katch Skinner who uses traditional commemorative ware to look at just a small selection of amazing women who left their mark throughout British history. Commemorative ware has been used to document events from political satire to holiday souvenirs and has been used as a social indicator of the times. The work challenges the male dominance of commemorative ware and pays tribute to female trailblazers and visionaries who helped change society.

Location

Platform Gallery
Station Road
Clitheroe
Lancashire
United Kingdom
BB7 2JT

Katch skinner women in history

Martin Parr Community Drawing

As part of this years Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, I run a community workshop to scale up  a Martin Parr photograph, This collaborative drawing had 119 panels and the finished work can be seen this weekend at Northlight Art Studios in Hebden Bridge. 

#vote100 Pot

This year I made this slip-cast and coiled pot to mark 100 years since Parliament passed a law which allowed some women, and all men, to vote for the first time: the 1918 Representation of the People Act. It will go on display in many different venues this year including

Vote 100: Suffragettes and Progaganda

CARTWRIGHT HALL ART GALLERY

WED 18 APR 2018 - TUE 4 SEP 2018 

Katch Skinner Suffragettes

A Woman's Place

20 January – 31 December 2018
Abbey House Museum

On the centenary of some women getting the vote, A Woman’s Place? looks at the struggles and progress of women in achieving equality and recognition. 
The exhibition features stories and objects from strong pioneering women such as Leonora Cohen and Nicola Adams, from 1860 to the present day. Discover how everyday life has changed for women in the home, school and workplace. 

We hope to inspire women and girls to believe that their ambitions and achievements are not limited by their gender.

Commissions 

·         Beryl Burton (cyclist)

·         Edith Pechey-Phipson (pioneering doctor)

·         Mary Gawthorpe (Suffragette and activist)

·         Ivy Benson (1940s band leader)

Made for the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection in 2017 by Katch Skinner, and part of the forthcoming 'A Woman's Place' exhibition. © Leeds Museums and Galleries.

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Women in British History

This work in progress exhibition, uses traditional commemorative ware to look at just a small selection of amazing women who left their mark throughout British history. Their contribution to society is immense but often over shadowed. These trailblazers and visionaries on display are just a thumb nail of the women who helped make a change to society. 

 

Commemorative ware has been used to document events from political satire to holiday souvenirs and was used as a social indicator of the times. This collection has been part of an on going project and has been selected by friends, family and through social media. 

 

Katch Skinner is a tutor in ceramics and maker of things. She uses hand built ceramics and speciality design plaster moulds for slip casting to form plates and manipulated moulds. Each earthenware piece is unique,  using hand painted underglazes, slips for mono printing, engobes, and lusters. She also produces silkscreened and digital decals, this means the work can take in excess of four kiln firings.

 

This is a work in progress exhibition and many of the works on show are development  pieces. 

 

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CLIFFE CASTLE CURIOSITY SHOP

In this special collaboration South Square Centre have teamed up with Cliffe Castle Museum to put together an exhibition celebrating this unique heritage building. South Square will be taking a look into the compelling collections on display at Cliffe Castle and asking artists Amelia Crouch, Luke Drozd and Katch Skinner to respond by making new artefacts for South Square’s Gallery and reproductions which can be sold at the Cliffe Castle Gift Shop. 

Perhaps the least known of Bradford’s Museums, Keighley’s Cliffe Castle, began life as the home of Victorian millionaire and textile manufacturer Henry Isaac Butterfield. Built in the Victorian era with Neo-gothic influence the interiors feature a grand display of international art and French decoration. The Butterfield’s connections with the Roosevelt’s of America had great influence on the features of the property, and it became a hotspot for glamorous social events of the era. 

In it’s most recent imagination, Cliffe Castle Museum was re-opened to the public in 1959. The collections on display today cover a unusual array of topics covering natural history, ancient history, archaeology, local history and more. Visitors can wind their way around the museums many rooms, featuring such oddities as a two headed taxidermy calf head, live beehive exhibit and collection of taxidermy beasts.


EXHIBITION OPENED: 5 MAY

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