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Phoebe Wilke: Where Did the Olla Go? The Effects of Western Influence on Cultural Ceramics


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This episode features a conversation with Phoebe Wilke, a final year undergraduate student on the BA (Hons) Ceramics course at Cardiff School of Art & Design, about their final year research which explores the effects of western influence on cultural ceramics demonstrated through the disappearance of the Olla

In conversation with Phoebe are Dr Leanne Freeman and Nada Koreish

You can find out more about Phoebe’s work via their Instagram: @ceramicsbypheebs or their online portfolio here.

If you would like to follow up on some of the ideas discussed in this episode you may find the following resources interesting:

  • Mitchell, T. (1988). Colonising Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Osman, N. (2024). In pictures: The ancient craft of Egypt’s ollal clay jugs. [online] Middle East Eye. Available here.
  • Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Savoy, B. and Meyer-Abich, S. (2022). Africa’s struggle for its art : history of a postcolonial defeat. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Sugar bowl - New Orleans Museum of Art. (2022). Egyptomania: Looking Back at Ancient Egyptian Culture. [online] Available Here.
  • Copeland, R. (1999) Spode’s Willow Pattern and other designs after the Chinese. London: Studio Vista. 




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