Ceramic art from the heart of Blackpool.
Studio Dot is the pseudonym of me, Michael Cassidy. I'm a Blackpool-based artist, working primarily in ceramics. For over a decade, I have developed a place-based practice that uses casting and performative gestures to create artwork that has been described as 'thought-provoking' and 'theatrical.' I hope you enjoy exploring it!
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Projects and Exhibitions
Book an art workshop for your school or workplace...
My workshops will allow you to create beautiful ceramic pieces that you can use every day. You'll have a calm, fun and mindful experience that will live in the objects you make. every time you use your cup, bowl, plate...or other creation, you'll be reminded of just how capable and creative you are!
Photos above courtesy of Stacey Chambers
Artist Statement
"I make ceramic art. I love ceramics because clay is a material that takes imprints and responds to forces. Clay is effected by time and gravity and it takes a reaction almost as hot as the sun, to freeze it in time.
I'm interested in the way that I can record imprints or 'indexes' of things in the world around me and turn them to stone. A lot of my work has involved recording textures from the spaces that I inhabit and reordering them to find new meaning. I’m interested in clay as a material that records touch, carries imprints and contains performance.
I’m moved by the idea that objects can be conduits for pathos and emotion. I think about imprints of objects and people as indexes of them and I wonder whether their auras might be somehow transferred through casting processes. I’m drawn to materiality and process. I love the physicality of materials and the inherent languages that they come with. In this sense, I try to make work that subverts the expectations of the viewer. My work tends to be theatrical in nature, hopefully somehow performing for the viewer, the story of how it came to be there."
