Quin, Corinne. 2022. Redacted Mugs. [Design]

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Since 2020, I’ve been buying mugs from charity shops. These domestic rejects are made cheap by the designs they carry, be they novelty messages, outdated merchandise or the lone survivors of a matching set. They mingled together awkwardly on my shelf despite their perfectly usable condition and regular shapes.

Redaction covers a text with its black slick and creates a space of secrecy. I have used black ceramic decal, cut it by hand and grafted it onto the existing graphics (like a temporary tattoo). When fired in the kiln it melts into the glaze, leaving a vague trace of its previous design. Which information to hide and what to leave is at the creative discretion of the redactor. The mugs become a new set, belonging together, their designs rendered unknown.

Item Type:	Design
Additional Information:	The series of redacted mugs were created in 2020. More versions were commissioned for the exhibition Domestic Monsters in April 2022, at the Constance Howard Gallery, London.
Keywords:	ceramics, redaction, mugs, secrecy
Related items in GRO:	Quin, Corinne. 2022. Redacted Ceramics. In: "Domestic Monsters", Constance Howard Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 12 April - 31 May 2022. [Show/Exhibition] Quin, Corinne. 2024. City Redactors: Neteja Pintadas, Barcelona. Documentation. [Report] (Forthcoming)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Design
Date:	April 2022
Dimensions or Duration:	Measurement Type UNSPECIFIED Dimensions
Copyright Holders:	Corinne Quin
Item ID:	35183
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2024 09:41
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2024 14:23
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35183

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