That self-exploration, and self-knowledge, now guides his process. “I like to keep pushing myself against the barriers that exist in my brain,” he says, particularly those resulting from a less-than-tolerant Catholic upbringing. But the lulling familiarity of Delftware allows him to make the sexualized male body a central part of his aesthetic vocabulary in a way that seems pedestrian, even historical, while exploring the blurred boundaries between art and kink (bedrooms adorned with tiles aren’t just for sleeping, after all), as well as his own identity. “Sexuality and the bodily functions have always been there,” says Bommer - queerness, too, even if it hasn’t always been explicit. There’s nothing new about reclaiming traditional craft techniques, as evidenced by the textile artist Bisa Butler’s “ The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake” (2020), a quilted portrait of the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and by the interior designer Sheila Bridges’s Harlem Toile de Jouy print centering a Black couple dressed in 18th-century clothing dancing to music from a boombox, which decorates silk scarves, window shades and Wedgwood plates. The South African ceramist Anton Bosch, 64, achieves something similar in the expansive tile murals he has created for the Conduit, a progressive social club in London, inserting Black people (Nelson Mandela a young artisan showing off a toy car he’s built) and local places (baobab trees the South African veld) into a medium inextricable from the Netherlands’ history of imperial domination. Kitesurfing News Kiteworld Magazine Kiteworld News See more The Action Cruise 2022 The Action Cruise, operating since 2015, is offering a range of kite & sail adventures from Greece to Sardinia in Spring and summer, Grenadines and Antigua in winter. During the pandemic’s first lockdown in London, she traded her large-scale canvases for four-inch square tiles, on which she paints “very voluptuous women - women that I’d want to look up to.” Huckin’s tiles are at once erotic and heroizing, objects that celebrate both women’s embodiment and the female gaze. The 28-year-old artist Ottelien Huckin, however, uses tiles to commemorate bodies not typically seen or celebrated in art. Parcourez notre sélection de kite magazine : vous y trouverez les meilleures pièces uniques ou personnalisées de nos magazines boutiques. “I hope mine will one day do the same,” she says. She wants her soulful, finely detailed renderings to make permanent “what we value and love about life” in the spaces where those lives are lived.
Today, the 58-year-old British ceramist Aviva Halter hews closely to traditional Dutch iconography in her rural Dorset workshop but, instead of mass-producing tiles, she concentrates on one-offs: Her commissioned tiles are hand-painted with portraits of her customers’ treasured plants and pets, including wire-haired lurchers, yellow-accented blue tits and Colorado columbines.
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