Relational Event
Material
Local speciality foods, local interest groups, summer fete.
Information.
The staff canteen at Spode in Stoke-on-Trent was the site for union meetings, political resistance, camaraderie and communal meals, whilst the methodist chapels of Waddington and Wellingore in LIncolnshire provided a different context for breaking bread and sharing lives. This supper of local speciality foods celebrates values of 'mucking-in' and 'lending a hand' that linger in village communities and rediscovers a forgotten local tradition - the stuffed chine supper.
Wellingore WI: Heritage table and cakes
Waddington History Group: Heritage table, harvest folk songs and memory sharing led by Maureen Sutton.
100 limited edition bone china commemorative tankards
Made in Stoke-on-Trent to celebrate rural Lincolnshire.
Influenced by the colour blue of the surviving pieces of Waddington Chapel earthenware and the bird of pray hovering over the village on the artist’s site visit. The bird is a poor quality digital rendition chosen to contrast the fineness of bone china. The bone china speaks back to the rural context through the inclusion of ground bovine bones.
Exhibited
Broadcaster, Waddington & Wellingore, UK (2014)
Curated by
Danica Maier
Funded Arts Council England
Photo credits
Julian Hughes
Related text
The Gathering
A flock of pigeons have gathered on the Post Methodist’s Lawn causing a stir, the villagers congregate, smile, comment. These are knowing birds, built-in flight-paths designed By Traci Kelly. Warm winds ruffle oil-free feathers, The birds rotate, supple as wax. Hollow bones light as a child’s balloon are ready for take off. Eyes are as blue as clay, feathers grey as stone, soft as Bone-ash. Hold a wing skywards and light will filter Through as if holding a china mug.
Maureen Sutton
07 07 2014.