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botanicals
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ceramics
colonialism
contemporary art
enslavement
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Jacqueline Bishop
market woman
reproductive agency
Product details
- ISBN 9781739154264
- Dimensions: 150 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2025
- Publisher: National Maritime Museum
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘The Keeper of All The Secrets’: Ceramic Art, Botanicals and the Caribbean Market Woman centres around a new work in ceramic by contemporary artist and writer Jacqueline Bishop. Featuring original essays, poetry by Bishop and an extensive interview with the artist, the book considers the role and significance of the market woman, who enabled others living under colonialism to take control of their reproductive agency. With The Keeper of All The Secrets, the artist subverts the traditions of commemoration associated with the medium, using it instead to probe the legacies of colonial plantation systems and the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans, and to celebrate the knowledge and resistance of a female figure who has, until now, been critically overlooked.
This book is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich Spotlight series, accessible introductions to some of the most intriguing objects in the collection.
Victoria Lane is Senior Curator, Art and Identity at Royal Museums Greenwich. She has developed her socially engaged practice through working with a range of contemporary artists.
Errol Francis is Artistic Director of Culture&, an arts charity working to open up who gets to make and enjoy arts and heritage. He is also Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester.
Angela Billings in studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies. She was formerly Development Director at Culture&.
Jacqueline Bishop is a New York-based artist and writer born and raised in Jamaica. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA, North Africa and Jamaica. She is the author of a novel and a number of poetry and short story collections.
Errol Francis is Artistic Director of Culture&, an arts charity working to open up who gets to make and enjoy arts and heritage. He is also Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester.
Angela Billings in studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies. She was formerly Development Director at Culture&.
Jacqueline Bishop is a New York-based artist and writer born and raised in Jamaica. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA, North Africa and Jamaica. She is the author of a novel and a number of poetry and short story collections.
