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Series Four
Activist Platters and Vases

For centuries, artists have

used the ceramic arts, both
decoratively and expressively,

to commemorate events
and create social or political

awareness. In 2008, Judith Swartz Proudly South Africa I (platter). August 2019, 400mm width.
published her ground-breaking Digitally printed ceramic transfers of my ballpoint pen drawings of a five clawed
dragon, a barn swallow, mist and water, digitally enhanced into patterns and cutout
book, Confrontational Ceramics,
into positive and negative shapes. Fired onto a readymade platter.
in which she documents artists’

approaches, in clay, to such
contentious topics. In the

demanding here and now of our
interconnected global world,

social media demands our
awareness of social issues

as never before. The titles of the
individual works in this ceramic
Xenophobia I (platter). September 2019, 400mm width.
series address particular issues:
Mean-while I (platter). September 2019, 400mm width. Digitally printed ceramic transfers of my ballpoint pen drawings
xenophobia, migration and the of a barn swallow and water, digitally enhanced into patterns and cutout
Digitally printed ceramic transfers of my ballpoint pen drawings of a five clawed
refugee crisis, including the Hong into positive and negative shapes. Fired onto a readymade platter.
dragon, a football, a barn swallow, mist and water, digitally enhanced into patterns
Kong Umbrella Revolution. and cutout into positive and negative shapes. Fired onto a readymade platter.

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