CONTAINING TIME

In Collaboration

Jane Perryman’s new body of work has transformed the vessel to become a record of time and place. Found objects are used to inspire text and poetry, photographed, and used to create frottage prints before incorporation with the clay body to become part of the vessel itself.

Containing Time charts the evolution of Janes’s ceramics as she integrates the separate strands of her work in a new and interactive way, journeying into unknown territory and breaking new ground. It celebrates her connectivity with the natural world through chronicling the human condition.

Encompassing a year’s sojourn, her ideas examine interlocking themes of materials, environment, time and journeys. Senses working in harmony, organic and holistic, her inspiration resonates with simple pleasures of daily life. The fifty-two resulting vessels, weekly journal entries, poems, photographs and frottages (of which a selection are shown at the Triennale) constitute a year-long cycle celebrating the vessel and life. Containing Time is a collaboration with composer Kevin Flanagan who has created an accompanying soundscape using sounds from both, the ceramic bowls being struck and the local environment; structured from the 52 segmental time scale of the overall piece.

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JANE PERRYMAN is an internationally recognised ceramicist, writer, photographer and filmmaker from England.  Her practice has developed traditional pottery making and firing techniques into a contemporary art form. She combines studio work with writing; her books are published in the UK, America, France and Germany. She exhibits, lectures and leads workshops internationally, and is represented in many public collections and museums. She has longstanding connections with India through extensive travel and research for her book Traditional Pottery of India and film Pottery Traditions of India as well as studying yoga with BKS Iyengar and teaching yoga. 

www.janeperryman.co.uk

KEVIN FLANAGAN comes from Lowell, Mass., US, and is interested in the intersection of contemporary music, jazz, and improvisation. He has put out two CDs with his group Riprap, and worked with ensembles, poets, filmmakers, painters and dancers in commissions from the TS Eliot Festival, John Clare Festival, Cambridge Festival of Ideas and many others. At Goldsmiths University his focus was contemporary composition and he went on to study at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge (where he lectures), and obtain a PhD in composition at the University of Sussex.