Kayleigh Peters (b.1987)
Activist Artist working to encourage shifting perspectives surround women’s health and taboo subjects connected to womanhood.
About
Material is at the centre of Kayleigh’s practice; she looks to take back the power of the material as a woman. Through making with clay there is a connection to the earth and life. The vessel is synonymous with the body and ceramics, through the exploration of abstracted non-functional ceramic forms Kayleigh connects her personal experience of functional issues with her body. Focusing on breaking taboo subjects surrounding hidden illnesses of the uterus through the paradigm of craft, with reflective biographical making. Through this act of quiet activism there is hope of encouraging visibility and the fight for better research within the medical industry. Contrasting defective glazes and imperfections on the surface of ceramic vessels to bring to the surface what is often hidden, through this act of showing them in full display and finding the beauty in the difficult. When you start to look at the body closely microscopically there are all shades of colour, contrasted colours communicate the conflicting battles that the body with hidden illnesses and battles endure. Kayleigh had developed her own unique palette of deflective glazes to explore the contrasts of colour and texture over thrown forms, looking for individuality in each form.
Exhibitions
2024 - Upcoming
AKA Contemporary Spring Exhibition 16th March - 13th April
Within the Limitations, 8th - 10th March
Gallery BN5, 31st January - 30th April
2023
Thrown Contemporary Winter Exhibition, 16th November 2023 - 28th January 2024
2022
Liberty Specialist Markets Art Award, London
Cluster Crafts Fair, London
2021
Global Online Graduate Show
New Designers, London
Graduate Online Show, University of Brighton
2018
On the Shelf at The Basement, Brighton
Awards
2022 Selected for the Liberty Specialist Market Art Award
2005 Young Craftsperson of the year in Ceramics Awarded 1st and 2nd Prize
Education
2021 University of Brighton - BA (Hons) 3D design and craft First Class Honours
2018 Greater Brighton Metropolitan college Level 2 foundation art and design - Distinction
Collaborations
2023 Cent.ldn developing branded limited edition candle cups.
2022/23 Charlotte Hodes, making ceramic vases with her for her project Conversations en Plein Air, exhibited at the Ariana Museum in Geneva, 3rd November 2023 to May 2024.