The Keeper of All The Secrets
Ceramic Art, Botanicals and the Caribbean Market Woman
Published on 13. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-7391542-6-4 (ISBN)
Description
'The Keeper of All The Secrets': Ceramic Art, Botanicals and the Caribbean Market Woman centres around a new work in ceramic by contemporary artist and writer Jacqueline Bishop. Featuring original essays, poetry by Bishop and an extensive interview with the artist, the book considers the role and significance of the market woman, who enabled others living under colonialism to take control of their reproductive agency. With The Keeper of All The Secrets, the artist subverts the traditions of commemoration associated with the medium, using it instead to probe the legacies of colonial plantation systems and the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans, and to celebrate the knowledge and resistance of a female figure who has, until now, been critically overlooked.
This book is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich Spotlight series, accessible introductions to some of the most intriguing objects in the collection.
This book is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich Spotlight series, accessible introductions to some of the most intriguing objects in the collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7391542-6-4 (9781739154264)
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Victoria Lane is Senior Curator, Art and Identity at Royal Museums Greenwich. She has developed her socially engaged practice through working with a range of contemporary artists.
Errol Francis is Artistic Director of Culture&, an arts charity working to open up who gets to make and enjoy arts and heritage. He is also Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester.
Angela Billings in studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies. She was formerly Development Director at Culture&.
Jacqueline Bishop is a New York-based artist and writer born and raised in Jamaica. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA, North Africa and Jamaica. She is the author of a novel and a number of poetry and short story collections.
Errol Francis is Artistic Director of Culture&, an arts charity working to open up who gets to make and enjoy arts and heritage. He is also Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester.
Angela Billings in studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies. She was formerly Development Director at Culture&.
Jacqueline Bishop is a New York-based artist and writer born and raised in Jamaica. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA, North Africa and Jamaica. She is the author of a novel and a number of poetry and short story collections.