Passport Flasks – the finale

Passage: In Passage, students have sited works in and around the existing collection and the exhibition is launched as a Holburne Up Late Event. This year nine students have each responded to objects across the museum, whether on display or in storage, delving into technique and concept through a process of selection, close-reading and reinterpretation. …

Exhibition thoughts

Text: Janice’s travel flasks are a material response to William Holburne’s paper passport document, his travelling Yixing teapot and his experience of the Grand Tour. The travel flasks take the flattened globular form of the Yixing teapot and the texture, patination and delicacy of the incised and print decorated porcelain relates to the 200 year-old …

Decoration for the flasks

The muse objects in the museum have stamped and inscribed decoration. As discussed in previous post, Conor and I discussed the practicalities of screen printing and laser cutting to make a stencil etc. Meanwhile I sent the files out to be printed as a high fire decal. The downfall to the decal is it has …