Plate 10,
11 inches diameter Bone China plates, Sussex gold rimmed, Print transfer from Jacqueline Bishop Collages
2021
Photography by Jenny Harper
Plate 9,
11 inches diameter Bone China plates, Sussex gold rimmed, Print transfer from Jacqueline Bishop Collages
2021
Photography by Jenny Harper
Plate 13,
11 inches diameter Bone China plates, Sussex gold rimmed, Print transfer from Jacqueline Bishop Collages
2021
Photography by Jenny Harper
Plate 5,
11 inches diameter Bone China plates, Sussex gold rimmed, Print transfer from Jacqueline Bishop Collages
2021
Photography by Jenny Harper
Plate 2,
11 inches diameter Bone China plates, Sussex gold rimmed, Print transfer from Jacqueline Bishop Collages
2021
Photography by Jenny Harper
History at The Dinner Table
In “History at the Dinner Table” artist Jacqueline Bishop has reframed the history of bone china dishes that she grew up with, on the island of Jamaica, fore-fronting the legacy of slavery that the narratives on these dishes have often tried to obscure. In this work she wanted to make this narrative obvious. Since she too is seduced and charmed by the delicacy and beauty of bone chinaware, she made these dishes, despite their references to a violent history equally as beautiful as the ones coming out of major European centers of Bone China production. The works are typically showcased and encased in mahogany cabinets, mahogany at one time being a major luxury import from Jamaica to England. Consequently, this work is not only an articulation of which gendered lives are expendable and which gendered lives are valuable, but the work relates as well to discussions of center and colonial periphery.
Artist Biography
Jacqueline Bishop is a writer and visual artist, born in Kingston, Jamaica. She now lives and works in New York City. She has held several Fulbright Fellowships, and exhibited her work widely in North America, Europe and North Africa. She is also an Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at New York University.