Carrie Reichardt Selected for Headline Exhibition Award
Carrie Reichardt. Picture: Facebook
February 18, 2023
Local ceramicist Carrie Reichardt has been selected as one of ten artists from across the country to create a work for the British Ceramic Biennial Award 2023.
She was nominated after being selected from over 180 entries including those from some of the UK’s most innovative artists working with ceramics.
Their works will form the focal point of the BCB Festival in Stoke-on-Trent in September, when one of them will be awarded £10,000.
Carrie, whose colourfully tiled Chiswick home is internationally renowned, is to cover a 1969 Ford Zephyr donated by DJ Fatboy Slim with ceramic tiles decorated to tell the story of Stoke-on-Trent’s rave culture, focussing on Shelley’s nightclub in Longton – the heart of the house and rave scene in the early 90s.
Along with new works from Rebecca Appleby, Ranti Bam, Copper Sounds, Rebecca Griffiths, Dan Kelly, Elspeth Owen, Mella Shaw, Jasmine Simpson and Nicola Tassie, Carrie’s piece will form part of a body of work to be the centrepiece of the exhibition.
Carrie posted her delight at being selected on social media saying that she was ‘proud and honoured’.
Carrie's decorated house in Chiswick. Picture: Google Streetview
Alun Graves, Chair of the BCB Award selection panel and Senior Curator, Ceramics and Glass 1900 – now at the V&A said, ‘The selection for BCB Award 2023 reflects the extraordinary breadth and diversity of contemporary ceramic practice. Ambitious proposals have come from artists from across generations, presenting an array of different approaches and tackling a range of themes of relevance to today. Exploring issues including the environment, well-being, rave culture, and the post-industrial landscape, and taking the form of ceramic sculpture, installation, and even a mosaiced car, the works promise to be both provocative and celebratory.’
Award is the headline exhibition in the British Ceramics Biennial, an international contemporary ceramics festival that takes place in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of British ceramics. The festival returns for its eighth edition from 23 September to 5 November 2023. The full BCB festival programme will be announced in late spring.
The BCB Award artists were selected by a panel of leading professionals who are advocates for contemporary art and making, and who bring a variety of perspectives to the decision-making process. They are Alun Graves, Stephen Dixon, BCB 2021 Award winner, Artist and Professor Emeritus, Manchester School of Art; Dr Guan Lee, Founder of Grymsdyke Farm, Architect and Associate Professor; Jenni Lomax, Curator, Writer and Visual Arts and Education Consultant; and Clare Wood, Artistic Director & Chief Executive, British Ceramics Biennial.
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