Artist: Aliyah Hussain

Medium: Glazed buff stoneware, glazed porcelain stoneware, audio (5min 15seconds), Risograph printed paper insert, brass pins.

Size: 27cm x 21cm x 4cm (approx)

Soundwares is a series of ceramic collages, made of individual components that are fused together with glaze. Taking the idea of creating multiples and incorporating a rhythm or beat into the work, each piece comes with a download code for a sound piece that is composed of loops and recordings made by playing the ceramic object as an instrument. This work comes out of a period of research on the connections between the materiality of Clay, repetition, looping, vibration, and sound.

Artist Biography

Aliyah Hussain’s practice approaches themes found within feminist science fiction literature as well as taking influence from imagery found within the design of nature, pattern, mathematics, and geology. With a background in performance and a practice rooted in process and making, her work moves across sound, ceramics, and drawing, with the methods of collage underpinning each discipline. She works with abstract forms and uses these to construct remixed narratives or create formulas for image-making; exploring visual and sonic modes of communication.

Recent presentations and commissions include; MÆKUR Conditions: 20_00, Bergen, (2020); The Sleep of Plants, Interruptions, Holden Gallery, Manchester, (2020); Soft Bodies, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Always mysteries of the tongue, HOME, Manchester (2019); you feel me_ and ~ all the feels ~ at FACT, Liverpool (2019); Warm Worlds and Otherwise by Anna Bunting-Branch, QUAD, Derby (2020) and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2018), Potential Wor(l)ds with Anna Bunting-Branch, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2018), Lighthouse, Brighton (2019) Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (2020) -commissioned by Reimagine Europe. Website

Postage: £15

Photography by studio member Bridget Coderc