Alternative Publications (available to buy and every purchase makes a difference)
Working with text, sculpture and the voice, I've been thinking about how and where words are held. Alternative Publications are an ongoing enquiry into connection and storytelling within objects. Affordable sculptures destined for the home, holding text as associated memory.
For more information please fill out your details in the form at the end of this page or send a direct message via Instagram (@natashamacvoy)
Working with text, sculpture and the voice, I've been thinking about how and where words are held. Alternative Publications are an ongoing enquiry into connection and storytelling within objects. Affordable sculptures destined for the home, holding text as associated memory.
For more information please fill out your details in the form at the end of this page or send a direct message via Instagram (@natashamacvoy)
Notes from the margin, 2022
Issue # 3
Issue # 3
Notes from the margin Motifs lying next to a child's drawing on my desk during Open Studios
Notes from the margin, 2022
Issue # 3
Notes from the margin are handmade ceramic motifs with an accompanying audio text. Both featured in the installation by the same name, and aim to provide a small meaningful gesture to those who may not or cannot travel to see the work in situ. The ceramic pieces in the installation are part of my writing technique where I use the busying of my hands to find an access point to writing, and the fired objects remain portals to the broadening and thickening of the texts. The audio is a 2 minute of a longer 20 minute script read by a voice over performer.
Notes from the margin cost £5 each + £2 postage*
Released May 2022, for Spike Island Open Studios
* Postage refers to the UK and may cost more to send further
Issue # 3
Notes from the margin are handmade ceramic motifs with an accompanying audio text. Both featured in the installation by the same name, and aim to provide a small meaningful gesture to those who may not or cannot travel to see the work in situ. The ceramic pieces in the installation are part of my writing technique where I use the busying of my hands to find an access point to writing, and the fired objects remain portals to the broadening and thickening of the texts. The audio is a 2 minute of a longer 20 minute script read by a voice over performer.
Notes from the margin cost £5 each + £2 postage*
Released May 2022, for Spike Island Open Studios
* Postage refers to the UK and may cost more to send further
Photograph: Dan Weill
Notes from the margin as shown during Spike Island Open Studios, 2022
Floating islands, 2021
Issue # 2
Issue # 2
Floating islands, 2021
Issue # 2
Floating Islands are handmade ceramic fridge magnets with their accompanying text featuring on the wrapping used in the postage. They can just as easily be placed on a shelf or a desk.
Floating islands cost £12 each + £3 postage*
Released October 2021, for Buy Art Southwest (for further information at - https://mirrorplymouth.com/projects/buy-art-south-west)
* Postage refers to the UK and may cost more to send further
Issue # 2
Floating Islands are handmade ceramic fridge magnets with their accompanying text featuring on the wrapping used in the postage. They can just as easily be placed on a shelf or a desk.
Floating islands cost £12 each + £3 postage*
Released October 2021, for Buy Art Southwest (for further information at - https://mirrorplymouth.com/projects/buy-art-south-west)
* Postage refers to the UK and may cost more to send further
Traveling companions, 2021
Issue # 1
Issue # 1
Traveling companions, 2021, Ceramic mountains, (each piece unique, approximately 4cm tall)
Traveling companions, 2021
Issue # 1
Traveling companions, miniature ceramic mountains intended for bookshelves, window sills and pockets. These unique hand-made mountains, finished in soft pink glaze with blue and white peaks, are sent by post with an audio recording of text.
Traveling companions cost £5 per mountain + £2 postage*
Released: June 2021, for Spike Island Open Studios (all events online due to Covid19)
* Postage refers to the UK and may cost more to send further
Issue # 1
Traveling companions, miniature ceramic mountains intended for bookshelves, window sills and pockets. These unique hand-made mountains, finished in soft pink glaze with blue and white peaks, are sent by post with an audio recording of text.
Traveling companions cost £5 per mountain + £2 postage*
Released: June 2021, for Spike Island Open Studios (all events online due to Covid19)
* Postage refers to the UK and may cost more to send further
In the studio I keep a notebook next to me as I make objects in clay. I’m hunting and gathering. Coaxing the voice from my hands and recording the words that trip on my tongue.