Shame, Listener and Other Works, 2014-2016
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 213589-77366-1285
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- London, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Shame, Listener and other works form part of a body of artworks made by Cuddon between 2014 and 2016. Six exemplar works are presented from an output of 30 sculptures. All are explorations in clay, sometimes in combination with other materials. The work has been exhibited in duo and group exhibitions, with reworking of the sculpture changing the way it is formulated and presented in subsequent iterations. The research has been featured in publications, with examples acquired for a national collection.
Cuddon understands the activity of studio-making as an extended process of exploring possible ways to embody what challenges representation. She intuits and intimates the sculpture before she makes it, then manipulates clay using hand-building processes which she equates to ‘chewing’ or ‘masticating’. This establishes a relationship between how the sculptures, and how spoken words, enter the world. The paradox of representing with words artworks that replace words is explored through the framing of titles. These provide entry points for the spectator, and result from her interest in the reciprocity between an artwork and its title, where one informs the way we understand the other.
Penumbra and Exhibition had the additional dimension of being developed through a dialogic process with painter Celia Hempton. For their duo show (2014) works were developed through a virtual ‘dialogue’, each artist responding to suggestions made by the other. Cuddon reworked the sculptures, combining them with other non-ceramic elements for group show Sticky Intimacy (2016).
Four sculptures were purchased for the Arts Council Collection (2019) with Shame shown as part of the exhibition Tell Me the Story of All These Things (2020).
Shame (2014) and Untitled, (2016) represent Cuddon’s work in ‘Vitamin C’, (Phaidon, 2017) focussing on clay in contemporary art, the field within which Cuddon’s work makes a distinctive contribution.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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