Towards a Sunderland Pottery for the Twenty-First Century: Materializing Multiple Dialogues in Museum Display through Creative Ceramics

Christopher McHugh

Towards a Sunderland Pottery for the Twenty-First Century: Materializing Multiple Dialogues in Museum Display through Creative Ceramics

Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

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Abstract

In this paper I discuss how, as a ceramic artist embedded in Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens (SMWG) as part of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award project, I have attempted to develop an approach to collections-based community engagement through creative ceramic practice and museum display. I will show how new material dialogues have been established between the museum's nineteenth-century Sunderland lustreware pottery collection, its historical context, and the contemporary community of Sunderland.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-88
Journal	Journal of Museum Ethnography
Volume	26
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Mar 2013

Bibliographical note

Reference text: Alfonso, A. I., Kurti, L., Pink, S. (eds) 2004. Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography, Routledge; new edition
Alibhai-Brown, Y., 2012. Keynote speech, Disruptive Difference – transnational craft dialogues, The Shape of Things Symposium held at School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, 17 February 2012
Arigho, B. 2008. Getting a Handle on the Past: The Use of Objects in Reminiscence Work in Chatterjee, H. J. (ed), 2008, Touch in Museums: Policy and Practice in Object Handling. Berg, pp. 205-212,
Baker, J.C., 1984. Sunderland Pottery, 5th edition, Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, Thomas Reed Industrial Press, Sunderland
Briers, D., 2012. National Glass 20214.pdf, Artistic Assessment Form, Arts Council.
Collections Trust, 2009. Revisiting Museum Collections Toolkit, Collections Trust.
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/programmes/revisiting-collections/987-revisiting-museum-collections-toolkit
Dorsett, C., 2008. Glimpsing the Archive, Catalogue Essay in Bacon, J. (ed.) ‘Arkive City’, Belfast: Interface University of Ulster & Locus+
Douglas, O., 2011. Making Things: An Introduction in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 24, 2011, pp. 11-22
Dudley, S., 2010. Museum materilaities: objects, sense and feeling in Dudley, S., 2010. Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations. Routledge, pp. 1-17
Gauntlett, D., 2011. Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTue and Web 2.0, Polity Press
Gray, C. and Malins, J. 2004. Visualizing Research: A guide to the Research Process in Art and Design, Ashgate
Greenblatt, S. 1991 Resonance and Wonder in Karp, I and. Lavine, S. D. (eds), 1991. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 42-57
Kidron, C., 2012. Breaching the wall of traumatic silence: Holocaust survivor and descendant person-object relations and the material transmission of the genocidal past In Journal of Material Culture, 17(1), pp.3-21
Knowles, Chantal, 2012, Multiple Dialogues: a position paper
Lynch, B. 2011. Whose cake is it anyway? Paul Hamlyn Foundation report
Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, April 1887. Jack Crawford in Notes and Corrections. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Walter Scott, Newcastle on Tyne, p.91
Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, September 1888. Jack Crawford’s Memorials. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Walter Scott, Newcastle on Tyne, pp. 414-415.
Putnam, J., 2009. Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium, 2nd ed., Thames & Hudson.
Renfrew, A. C., (2003), Figuring it out: The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists, Thames & Hudson
Sarmiento, J., 2011. Ode on a Maori Paddle: Ethno/Graphic Glass Art Practice in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 24, 2011, pp. 58-77.
Turkle, S. (ed) 2007. Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England

Keywords

Sunderland
pottery
museum
engagement
display

UN SDGs

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Bibliographical note

Keywords

UN SDGs

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Press coverage of Created in Conflict exhibition: ITV News at 10, 16 March, 2018

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Clay and commemoration: exploring the role creative clay work may play in promoting the wellbeing of NI veterans: AHRC Next Generation Design Research Workshop

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