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the blessed round

April 23, 2020by carys davies Leave a comment

I was lucky enough to be invited to collaborate on The Blessed Round, a cantata by Rebecca Bilkau, set to music by Helen Roe, which had its first performance on […]

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This week’s failures

April 27, 2018by carys davies 3 Comments

Modern life has made some things a lot easier for the studio potter – like paperwork and photography: I’ve just photographed work for a new show at Gallery57 in Arundel. […]

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tribes in the arts

May 20, 2016by carys davies Leave a comment

Many thanks to everyone who supported the Artists’ Open House at the Dulwich Festival. We had a great couple of weekends, with a real feeling of community in dear old […]

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the meaning of objects

March 4, 2016by carys davies Leave a comment

I was given these lovely buttons recently. I’m not sure how many families pass down the button box, a store of old, new, useful, ugly – and some gorgeous – […]

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the limits of cork lining

October 16, 2015by carys davies 3 Comments

Proust famously had his bedroom cork-lined to keep out the noise of his neighbours. Eric Packer, in DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, has his limo cork-lined, too.   I’ve been musing that focus, […]

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the division of labour

October 10, 2014by carys davies 2 Comments

This week I’ve been an electrician, a stone-cutter, a photographer, an illustrator, a gardener, a marketer, a critic, and an entrepreneur. Well, sort of.   Mending my kiln was the […]

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the expanded field

July 18, 2014by carys davies 1 Comment

New research in ceramic practice at the University of Westminster focusses on the relationship between ceramics and museums. The conference, Ceramics in the Expanded Field opened yesteday with a private […]

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text threads

July 11, 2014by carys davies Leave a comment

I was writing about text threads last week – the online kind, where a conversation gets linked together by a virtual thread. The metaphor of threading‘s pretty universal: used in […]

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texts and txts

July 4, 2014by carys davies 1 Comment

I got sidetracked this week by the re-birth of email newsletters. The right ones can be great – a kind of mini-magazine you can stack up to read at leisure. […]

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the sea, the sea

June 20, 2014by carys davies 4 Comments

I will be at West Dean Craft Fair by the time you read this. I’m really looking forward to being in the gardens, (here’s the West Dean Gardens blog), near […]

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