Red Clay 2024
Thursday 7 March - Sunday 14 April
Opening on Thursday 7 March
5.30-8pm
Join us with friends and family for a round-table discussion from 6.15 - 7PM, featuring all exhibiting artists as they discuss their work in relationship to womxn’s mental, physical and hormonal health
Red Clay is bringing together a collection of creative practitioners over a 5 week period from Thursday 7 March - Sunday 14 April, including an exhibition of experimental artwork, talks, seminars, workshops and an artist in residence.
This programme of events will be shaped by a range of practitioners who are opening up and highlighting womxn's mental, physical and hormonal health; giving opportunity to have dialogue within the participating practitioners and our audiences alike.
Red Clay supports intergenerational women and queer practitioners. We acknowledge that using the term ‘womxn’ is not as inclusive as it should be - and are searching for better words, and don’t want to exclude anyone. Let’s discuss together.
The creative practitioners selected for Red Clay 2024 are:
Issy Miller
Ann Marie Morgan
Lauran Wilkinson
Sandy Comber
Sarah Scaife
Hermione Burrell
Haley Drolet (Artist in Residence)
Events
Breasts and our relationships to them is one nub of womxn’s health and wellbeing.
Artist Sarah Scaife invites you to join a respectful conversation around our lived sense of breasts. She will offer ways to meet each other safely, such as listening in pairs. We will playfully celebrate breasts and may open delicate areas of experience too.
Sarah Scaife (she/her) is an artist with a practice centred on listening, walking, drawing and ceremony. Her own experience of breast cancer treatment included an unwanted mastectomy. Sarah’s creative research explores ‘medicines of uncertainty’.
Join us Friday 5 April 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm at OVADA Gallery
Just turn up slightly before 11am or email us engagement@ovada.org.uk for tickets
There will be free hot drinks available
To find out more about Sarah’s research visit this website
Join RED CLAY artist - in - residence Haley Drolet for a free Sexual Health Collage workshop
Saturday 13th of April from 5:00 - 7:00pm in the gallery
Everyone welcome!
Bring your own drinks and snacks
Just turn up or email engagement@ovada.org.uk to book a space
Drop in and join Terrence Higgins Trust at OVADA Gallery for a free Sexual Health Clinic
find out more about the Terrence Higgins Trust here
Friday 5 April 2024 from 1:00 - 5:00pm in the gallery
and
Saturday 13 April 2024 from 1:00 - 5:00 in the gallery
Free
everyone welcome
Just turn up or email engagement@ovada.org.uk to find out more
Our wonderful artist in residence Haley Drolet will be in the gallery with fellow exhibitors to reflect on Red Clay - please join us to take a last look at the work and have an open conversation about mental, physical and hormonal health of all women
Finding an inclusive term for women is a tricky one, and we would invite you to participate to the discourse around this
There is so much to talk about here, and we are only scratching the surface. What would you like to explore further? We are aiming to produce Red Clay next year and are keen to hear from everyone
We are lucky enough to have singer and songwriter Namvula joining us for our closing party. She will share songs and readings from her body of work, inviting listeners to join her on a journey of introspection and connection. Her music considers the beauty and ugliness of life, its creativity, its tenderness and cruelty, and the power of the stories that it holds, both simple and complex, and her admiration for the strong women who populate her lineage has informed her interest in and sensitivity to broader politics including feminism, the climate emergency, and migration
We can’t wait to see you all - come along with friends and family xx
Body- Mapping Workshop
We were joined in the warehouse for a free drawing workshop with Lauran Wilkinson, one of the artists exhibiting in RED CLAY 2024
From 11.30am to 12.30pm everyone was welcome -
Lauran's creative practice explores women’s health and how society portrays the female form, creating awareness for endometriosis and postnatal depression, and delivers workshops as an Arts, Health & Wellbeing Facilitator.
Learn more about Lauran Wilkinson
Bosom for a Pillow
Breasts and our relationships to them is one nub of womxn’s health and wellbeing.
Artist Sarah Scaife invited you to join a respectful conversation around our lived sense of breasts. She offered ways to meet each other safely, such as listening in pairs. We playfully celebrated breasts and opened delicate areas of experience too.
Sarah Scaife (she/her) is an artist with a practice centred on listening, walking, drawing and ceremony. Her own experience of breast cancer treatment included an unwanted mastectomy. Sarah’s creative research explores ‘medicines of uncertainty’.
This event happened on Friday 5 April 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm at OVADA Gallery
To find out more about Sarah’s research visit this website
Sarah Scaife designed this poster in response to Bosom for a Pillow held here at OVADA during RED CLAY on Friday 5th of April 2024
The collage reflects some of the themes and words of the shared conversation held during Bosom for a Pillow
Within the image there are some powerful female figures in religion - Mary and Kali - and the circle patterns and bra are ‘bosom pads’ from the US patent office