What's Your Craft - Craftivist Carrie Reichardt
Channel: CraftsCouncil
Date: 2018-09-27

#WhatsYourCraft series kicks off with a look behind the scenes as UK craftivist Carrie Reichardt shows us how she creates her mosaics and other unique pieces of rebel art.  

Carrie Reichardt has spoken publicly about the use of art and passionately believes that craft can be used to open up dialogue about sensitive issues. She has used skills as a vehicle for her own political activism, most notably her campaigning for prisoners on Death Row and her involvement with the fight to gain justice for the Angola 3. Carrie also feels that by using her creativity, she has been able to improve her own well-being whilst helping make art accessible to all.
 
She creates anarchic artworks where vintage floral, kitsch, royal and religious crockery is given a new twist by re-firing with layers of new ceramic decals. They are modified in a "radical use of traditional things" and often adorned with skulls, cheeky slogans and political statements.

What's Your Craft - Craftivist Carrie Reichardt
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What's Your Craft - Craftivist Carrie Reichardt
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