Ceramic Sculpture

A Series of Ceramics

To view more Suffragette/Suffragist sculpture visit: Marking the Martyrs June 2018

Sophia Goulden 2017/18 (click here) 

Millicent Garrett Fawcett 2017

Height: 13.5″ (34cm) x  Depth: 7″(48cm) x Width: 14″(45cm) in earth stone clay

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Christabel Pankhurst 2016

Above: The ceramic bust with the surface cracks in the glaze traced & overlaid with 24 carat gold leaf. 

Price available upon request.

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Emmeline Pankhurst 2016 (click here)

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Sonia Jacobs, aged 38, both wet clay and fired and glazed versions

Leon Grant, aged 8

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Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797 Ceramic Memorial Portrait Bust 2015

The first of a series of memorial busts intending to ‘re-claim’ some of history’s forgotten pioneering women, beginning with Mary Wollstonecraft, founding feminist philosopher and advocate of women’s rights, No substantial memorial to her exists; she is long overdue public recognition. Best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she was the first woman to say that women and men should have equal rights, advocating votes for women 100 years before the suffragettes. I decided to produce a portrait bust of Mary after seeing details of a competition from the Newington Green Action Group, who have initiated a fundraising campaign to recognise her achievements by erecting a sculptural memorial to her on Newington Green, London, where she lived and worked. The shock of hearing of such a lack of representation motivated me to begin a portrait bust of her.

PHD student Camilla Morc Rostvick, at the Peoples library in Manchester generously helped me, sending me interesting written and visual information, e.g. “The Williamson portrait is interesting because it shows her in full power, having been in Paris during the revolution and writing her book… She wrote to a friend that she was sitting for a portrait in the year Williamson (?) is said to have painted it, saying it was “no great likeness” and that if you really wanted to know her you should check out this book she was writing (the Vindication!). Painted probably when she was pregnant, the more famous John Opie portrait has probably ‘beautified’ her, she would die in childbirth aged 38, birthing Mary Wollstonecraft, later Shelley, of Frankenstein fame.”

This portrait bust contains trace elements of all known portraits of her, particularly the Opie portraits and the Vindication illustration; myself and a colleague posed for the back view in headscarves.

Mary Wollstonecraft maquette 2019

H: 25.5 x W: 7.5 x D: 7cm (10″ 3″ 2.5″)

Fired, glazed, terracotta Grog maquette, without base

H: 25.5 x W: 7.5 x D: 7cm (10″ 3″ 2.5″)

Glazed stoneware, without base

Ceramic Maquettes and sculpture

The Kiss

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‘Matriarch’

Price: £195  Height: 32.5cm | Width: 13.5cm

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‘This is the Church, This is the steeple’ Women Bishops & the Synod, 1994

A comment on the Ordination of Women within the church.

Using familiar symbols, the image above the purple velvet shelf-purple symbolic of the bishopry -shows a woman’s – my mother’s  hands in the second stage of the old rhyme ‘This is the church, this is the steeple, open the doors and here are the people’. The hands are pointing up towards the dawn – the dawn of a new age for women within church hierarchy. The white carnation is emblematic, it is what each woman wore to show their unity before the vote of the general Synod in 1994.