Portal

This artwork featured in The Precious Clay (2019). 

Portal was an ambitious community engagement programme that took place during The Precious Clay exhibition and resulted in a new work installed in January outside the Museum.

The door handle can be seen as a kind of portal into people’s lives; turning it may take you into spaces that could be public or intimate. Partly inspired by the museum’s collection of ceramic door handles, Storymine’s Portal project invited different groups of Worcestershire people to cast a porcelain door handle and become part of a collaborative artwork.

Ceramic artist Emma Summers and filmmaker Peter Summers collected the participants’ stories, asking what a home and local communities mean to them, in order to create a film that is a virtual tapestry of reminiscence – a collection of memories. The cast door handles were displayed as part of a sculptural installation.

Image: Storymine, Portal, community engagement programme, 2019. Image courtesy the artist. 

 

About the artist

Storymine

Storymine exhibited in The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, 2019.

Image: Storymine, Portal, 2018. Community project. Image courtesy the artists.