#katie kershaw

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MRS. FLETCHER (2019)

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As an overweight lesbian, I fucking love Mrs. Fletcher. When she is irresistibly attracted to a woman, it is a woman who is bigger. And Kathryn is the one who is spellbound by her. It’s more true to the sapphic experience than something like the L Word is. So many couples in the sapphic community have different looks and body types to each other. There is just a different perception of beauty that women have of each other.

I fucking love it.

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this scene lives completely rent free in my head

content warning: nudity

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Pintrest has jokes today 😂

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bi bi bi

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Ugh, what I would give…

Kathryn Hahn Loves Women and I love Women and I Love her for loving Women!

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Ceramics-Artist Research

Ceramics-Artist Research 

Katie Spragg: Is an English ceramic artist.  Katie’s work explores nature, each piece Spragg creates has a story behind the piece.  For example, Spragg piece called ‘Lambreth Winds’ includes using wild plants as symbolism for her memories as well as other people's memories.  Spragg’s other works include doing smaller scale nature themed pieces that fill public spaces with her ceramic pieces.  Katie Spragg works part time as a teacher in the ‘Royal College of Art’, Spragg continues to create ceramic pieces. 

Phoebe Cummings:  Phoebe Cummings is an English artist who has done ceramic pieces.  Cummings uses unfired clay to create performative sculptures with themes of creation and decay.  Phobe Cummings other hand made works include sculptural nature pieces combining Baroque and Rocco design. Known for her solo Exhibitions such as “Supernatural” and “Thought Barefoot”.  In these exhibitions Cummings has a unique way of putting together her work, using her practices of ephemeral sculptures and objects to works on paper and text.  Phoebe Cummings works are based on growth and rotting of fruit and flowers. It is evident in her work the observation and attention to detail. Uses a lot of dark grey colour to symbolise the decaying flowers. Most of her pieces are done to large scale. 

Susan Beiner:   Susan Beiner is an American ceramic artist and Professor at Herberger Institue for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Beiner ceramic pieces expose the fragility of the ecosystem, human and animals.  Through her ceramic pieces Biener raises awareness about conflict between nature and humanity.  

Susan Biener works range from large scale floor sculptures to small scale sculptures, using various bright colours such as lime green, blues and reds.   One of Beiners pieces called ‘Land Over Time’ (2023) is a floor sculpture made with porcelain and stoneware. This pieces and small and thins strips of green standing up right, with flower heads on top. To depict a flower growing in a field.  

  Jason Walker: Northwest artist Jason Walker is widely celebrated for his skillfully executed ceramic sculpture. Treading a fine line between storytelling and social criticism, Walker’s work explores the human experience as reflected in Nature. His painted porcelain works, often taking the form of wild animals domesticated by industry, are simultaneously thought-provoking and unsettling. Bridging the dichotomous worlds of nature and technology represents, for the artist, “a journey to define for myself what it means to be human in the present time. 

Wendy Kershaw:  Wendy creates narrative illustrations on porcelain, usually in the form of framed panels, but also porcelain books and folding screens. She intricately builds up rich layers of imagery, by etching into porcelain with needles, then working in stains, transfers and on-glaze.  Kershaw skilful techniques and multiple firings produce unique detailed images.  The themes that she illustrates range from celebrations of the small joys of life and her own stories.  A large influence on Kershaw’s work were three residencies in China, where she was invited after her work was exhibited in America. These were in the historic porcelain capital of Jingdezhen, Shanghai and as part of the UK delegation to the Fule International Ceramic Art Museums.   

Ingrid Murphy: Ingrid Murphy is an Irish artist.  Studied Ceramics and Photography at Crawford School of Art & Design and completed a Master's Degree in Ceramics at Cardiff School of Art & Design. Having worked in various educational roles since 1993 Murphy is currently the Academic Lead for Trans disciplinarity at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, having returned to Cardiff to lead the ceramic department in 2008. 

A practicing ceramic artist, in 2011 Ingrid was awarded a Creative Wales award to explore how new technologies could influence the sole practitioner in ceramics. 

Having worked in Art and Design education for over 20 years, Ingrid Murphy was Head of Ceramics at Cardiff Metropolitan University from 2007 – 2013. Influenced by her own research, in 2011 she developed a new course, Artist Designer: Maker, which she led until 2016.  This course focused on fusing traditional craft skills with new and emerging processes in digital design and fabrication.  In Murphy’s series of Staffordshire flat-backs, Ingrid Murphy uses QR codes to link the modified historical object to customized online content, creating an interesting dialogue between real objects and the virtual world. 

The work attempts to provide the viewer with a different experience of the familiar. Reclaiming objects enables her to plunder ceramic history to make new and interesting contemporary narratives that also speak of traditional craft values. 

Kate Malone : Kate Malone is one of the United Kingdom's most profound ceramic artists, with a career spanning for more than thirty years.  Malone’s work includes observations of nature, its fruits and vegetables and nature in the abstract.  In addition to her exploration of nature, Kate Malone has spent her career pioneering glazing techniques via research and experimentation in the chemistry of glazing. The sophistication of her glazes has led to working on public art projects in hospitals, schools, parks and libraries. 

Bernard Palissy: Bernard Palissy was a Renaissance artist in the 15 th and 16 th century Europe.  Bernard Palissy began as a painter of glass, but, after journeys in the south and in the Ardennes brought him into contact with humanists, Palissy settled as a surveyor and potter in Saintes, near La Rochelle. Persecuted as a Protestant, Palissy was imprisoned until the constable of Montmorency employed him in the decoration of the Château d’Ecouen. After completing this job Palissy became known as “inventor of rustic pottery to the king and the queen mother” which in turn enabled him to work in Paris. In 1570, helped by his sons, he built a pottery grotto for Catherine de Médicis in the garden of the Tuileries. 

Palissy pieces were created by pressing into a mould and finished by modelling or the application of ornament moulded in relief. Palissy authentic productions bear no signature or mark.  Palissy moulds were used later during the 17th century at Avon near Fontainebleau and at Manerbe, Calvados, where a few lead-glazed earthenware statuettes were made.   

Most of his plates for example have nature-based design with a 3D effect.  Uses a lot of bright colour to replicate natures natural beauty.   

Susan O’Byrne: Susan O’Byrne is an Irish ceramic artist richly patterned, mosaic-like designs on the surfaces of her ceramic sculptures of animals. It’s an interesting interplay of sculptural mass and ephemeral decoration. Susan studied tapestry as well as ceramics and that body of knowledge is evident in her work.  O’Byrne work sets a quiet, contemplative tone.  Susan O’Byrne works include using wire armature, covering each wire with paper rods before hanging the armature from a frame.  Then make clay legs and attach these to the armature and cover the whole form in sheets of a stoneware paper-clay body.  The paper rods allow for some shrinkage of the clay (onto the wire) during drying and when they burn away in the firing, create more space for further shrinkage during vitrification. 

Sources: 

Katie Spragg – Artist Profile – JTW Ceramics 

Phoebe Cummings - Artist Page — ANIMA MUNDI 

Current-2020 — Susan Beiner Ceramics 

Wendy Kershaw - Artists - Strathearn Gallery 

ABOUT | mysite 

Irish Contemporary Ceramics Artists - The Hunt Museum 

ABOUT | mysite 

Introduction - Kate Malone – Ceramics & Glaze research, London. 

Susan O’Byrne – Artist Profile – JTW Ceramics 

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An Encouraging and Thoughtful Mentor - Karina Gilbert The MET

These past few days at the Met have been extraordinary, and much of that is thanks to the guidance of our mentor, Karina Gilbert. From the very beginning, her warm and approachable demeanor put me at ease. Karina embodies the essence of what a mentor should be—someone who not only shares knowledge but also fosters an environment where curiosity and personal growth are encouraged.

Karina has created a space where I feel confident expressing my thoughts and asking questions. Her ability to listen and provide thoughtful feedback makes every interaction meaningful. She has encouraged us to explore the Met with a sense of wonder, and her carefully curated, diverse schedule ensures that each day offers a new perspective. Even when our activities overlap, Karina’s approach turns familiar experiences into opportunities for deeper understanding.

A mentor should be adaptable, and Karina has shown this by ensuring that even when plans change, we still make the most of our time. Her flexibility and foresight have allowed us to experience the Met in its fullest sense, while also finding moments to simply appreciate the beauty of the spaces around us.

Supportive, insightful, and focused on guiding personal and professional growth, Karina Gilbert embodies these qualities. 🌱

I would like to express my gratitude to the other mentors and experts who dedicated their time to engage in this week with us. Mike Dominick, Dan Kershaw, Larry Kellermueller, Keelia Jacobs, Katy Uravith, Russel, Kailey, Ellie…

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Kathryn Hahn & Katie Kershaw in MRS FLETCHER (2019)

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This is a Katie Kershaw as Amanda in the HBO limited-series Mrs. Fletcher (2019) appreciation post because?!

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Update: my friend messaged me the following:

this episode REALLY feels like it wants to end in an Eve-Amanda-Julian threesome

and then immediately afterwards:

I FUCKING KNEW IT

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“ i mean, only if you’re paying attention. ”

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This scene was so beautiful 🥹

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Bingeing, microdosed: Mrs. Fletcher (developed by Tom Perrotta, 2019)

for a new cycle starter, this is such a dishonest choice, since I did no actual binge, but, instead, excitedly unpacked the series episode by episode, week by week, just after each would premiere, thinking of it, I realized that it was one plot, involving, spoiler alert, three characters who would end up in a beautifully filmed threesome at the finale’s end, that has cannibalized my memory of everything and everyone else to the point that I have forgotten about Cameron Boyce’s nuanced, if sidelined, queer character and Jen Richards, whose romancing storyline, underdeveloped as it was, luckily veered off possible clichés, also there’s an unavoidable, though the least interesting (because what else can you say about it), toxic masculinity plot

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I'm living for Kathryn Hahn and them Sapphic Vibes