New Frameworks For Interpreting Ceramic Objects

Abstract

The Fragile? Exhibition; the largest ceramics exhibition ever hosted in Wales, offered a rich and diverse arena in which to explore ways in which we might uncover latent or hidden meaning behind objects. Interpretation should never tell us what to see, think, or feel, it is simply a meeting of two worlds, the ethnography of an object set against that of a viewer, it is just a matter of finding the right language to speak with them. This project contains the work of four artists, one researcher, one Keeper of Art and two Curators, each invited to apply the methodology of their practice to the interpretation of artefacts that intrigued them within the Fragile? Exhibition.