Ceramic Gallery, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
21st June to 12th October 2025
Opening Hours: Monday – Wednesday: 10am – 5pm
Thursday – Saturday: 10am – 8pm
Sunday: 1pm – 5pm
Linda’s work is exhibited alongside work by ceramic artists Bonnie Grace, Sally Stubbings, Pete Bodenham, Elif Ağatekin and Iku Nishikawa and mosaicist Cleo Mussi
In the work in this show Linda has utilised the instantly recognisable shape of the cup to create 2 dimensional vessels representing connection with other people, as well as with past lives inspired by archaeological shards found in the landscape. Some of these cups are cut from redundant pressed glass fruit-bowls and plates, others are meticulously created using stained glass and engraving techniques, or are formed in ceramic with images embossed and glazed.
Alongside these works are a selection of Linda’s ceramic decal pieces, found mass-produced ceramics rescued from charity shops which bear witness to the lives of everyday people using everyday objects. On each of these objects, Linda has applied old photographs from her local community or fragments of poetry. These poems are written both by renowned Welsh poets like Menna Elfyn, and in community workshops, thus embodying the idea of community coming together across time to create poems and bring different art forms together. Many hands have touched these pieces.
As an installation the works represent the breadth of Linda’s practice and her commitment to facilitating community participatory arts experiences. The pieces evoke shared conversation, elevate everyday, utilitarian objects like the wooden spoon, and contrast it with the sparkle and show invoked by post-Second World War pressed glass and the centuries old skills of stained glass.
The work investigates domesticity, manners and display, and explores the possibilities of recycling and repurposing redundant objects, drawing parallels with how women themselves have been viewed in the past as “domestic objects” and their stories have been dusted off, ‘repurposed’ or given renewed value.
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