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Carrie Reichardt (b. 1966) lives and works in London. She gained a First Class degree in Fine Art at Leeds University and has had a career spanning many media, including film, performance and sculpture. She is perhaps best known as a ceramicist and mosaicist, working internationally on large scale public murals.
A renegade who is revered in anti-establishment circles, Reichardt’s preoccupation with seditious ceramics places her within an artistic tradition extending back to William Morris. They are modified in a “radical use of traditional things” and often adorned with skulls, cheeky slogans and political statements. Her first solo exhibition, entitled “Mad in England”, provided an exploration of this theme, which she has continued to pursue in subsequent work.
Carrie Reichardt has spoken publicly about the use of craft and art as protest and her skills have been put to good use as a vehicle for her own political activism. She has been an outspoken advocate for using Art as a form of personal therapy and “Mad In England” is a perfect back stamp for her work.Â
