Kintsugi

Bonnie Kemske a professional writer and ceramic artist. She holds a PhD by practice from the Royal College of Art, London, in touch and ceramics. This followed ten years of working as a professional potter, and drew on her experience of being an American living in Britain, her love of Japanese tea ceremony, of which she has been a student for many years, and several years of training in dance when she was a young woman, which she says is the undergirding of her love of the human body, not as an object but in our physical experience of it. After finishing her PhD she took over the editorship of Ceramic Review (2010-2013), following Emmanuel Cooper who had been its Editor for 40 years. She has continued to contribute articles to Ceramic Review as well as many other international publications, including the Observer Magazine, Crafts, Studio Potter, Ceramics: Art & Perception, The Art Newspaper, and New Ceramics. She continues to write and/or present papers for diverse academic conferences and symposia. Bonnie’s interests focus on positive bodily engagement as an experience of art, Japanese culture including ceramics and tea ceremony, and contemporary ceramics. As with Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend, her first book, The Teabowl: East and West (Herbert Press) drew on her knowledge and experience as a potter, a writer, and a tea ceremony student. More information can be found on her website: www.bonniekemske.com.

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