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1479 china plates
As part of a public art programme of temporary and permanent commissions in Combe Down village near Bath, Chris Tipping has created a map made from 788 Bone China dinner plates.
1479 China Plates explores the relationship between present-day engineering and mining technology, stone mines heritage, natural history and eighteenth-century entrepreneurs of the English Enlightenment Ralph Allen and Josiah Wedgwood. The 691 households affected by the stabilisation works will be gifted a ceramic plate – one small part of the map – to represent not only the individual household but the mining underworld beneath it. Following the exhibition at the Octagon in Bath during October/November 2009, the original 788 dinner plates will form a large-scale permanent installation in the planned interpretation centre in Combe Down village. The installation was created in collaboration with 3D Digital Research Cluster at University College Falmouth Autonomatic, Digital Ceramics Systems and Duchess China of Staffordshire, Oxford Archaeology, Hydrock and the Combe Down Project Team. Trained in ceramics at the RCA, but better known for his sculpture and public art work, this commission presented an opportunity for Chris Tipping to return to the medium of ceramics. The Combe Down Mines Stabilisation Project was necessary to counteract the years of extensive mining...
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