Fliff Carr

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previously shown in

cloth and clay 2024

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tell me a story 2025

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Fliff Carr's recent body of work is a reflection of the artist’s childhood self as found in the pages of an old school diary. As a departure point, the diary becomes a focus for wider explorations of memory, unspoken thoughts, feelings and the traces of what we mean but what we say. 

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Processes of writing, embossing and cutting of clay suggest a layering and restructuring of the diary contents whilst the boxes contain and hide these unspoken stories. In this context the artist is interested in the idea that whilst much can remain hidden meaningful context always remains. Carr gives form and texture to this context. Her objects and collections become tender materialisations of the forgotten. 

 

Fliff is a London designer and maker of simple and refined ceramic tableware and art work. Her finely-thrown and hand-rolled pieces are distinctly eclectic and explore scale, pattern and irregularity. She uses white and black earthenware clay, textured and embossed or inlaid with subtle shades of coloured slip and underglaze. 

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Collection and display are as important to Fliff as the making itself, and much of her work considers the process of repetition collection and display. She uses layering and meaning in the context of individual pieces and is drawn to that which is  hidden, obscured or revealed using her own childhood diaries and her interest in the emotional resonance of objects to inform her making. 

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