ACWU member Diane Eagles is exhibiting at Swedenborg House.
EXHIBITION: 18 Oct - 30 Nov Mon - Friday 9.30 am - 5.00 pm
EXHIBITION OPENING: 19 Oct, 6.00-9.00 pm
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
The Humble Servant is an exhibition of 4 hand-built ceramic pieces inspired by the engravings of William Blake for a pattern book of Josiah Wedgwood’s queensware tableware in 1817. Adorned with quotations from Swedenborg’s writings, and echoing the style of Blake’s hand-coloured etching plates from his Lambeth poems, the ceramics replicate creamware of the period, with handapplied coloured lead glaze and transfer printing.
The works originate from a period in Blake’s life when his financial and public fortunes were at a low ebb. It is likely that Blake’s friend, John Flaxman, one of the most significant artists employed by Wedgwood and a founding member of the Swedenborg Society, was the link for the improbable engraving commission; a stark contrast to the visionary imagery Blake is famous for. The engravings may be seen as the work of a man in desperate circumstances, however the Swedenborg principle of service to others might be present in Blake’s salutation to Wedgwood, ‘your humble servant’.
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