Tracie Peisley

Peisley’s work is intense, highly charged with an emotional content that relates to the everyday drama of existing.

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Jun 21

B A S K E T C A S E
Miniature porcelain
Like baby Nigel Rolfe performances
#bound #headstuff #porcelain #porcelainminatures #lockedin #peisleyceramics #wip #cage #basketcase #cagedbird #snakecharmer #snakebasket #basket #harvest #lock

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Jun 19

I have been invited to design and run a supportive/therapeutic pilot project for carers of people with Motor Neurone Disease. I don't know if you can begin to imagine what a rare thing a creative space can become for those who are constantly needed to care and respond for others. I feel like I'm walking lightly, holding them lightly, honouring them completely and rapidly distilling my skills so that they can have the best time with their art materials.
I was able to propose that each carer receive a box of art materials they would need for the course. So everything is there in one place and it's a gift.

As a child I can recall the greatest excitement at unwrapping a pack of felt tip pens in every colour. They might only have last 5 minutes but they looked like every colour that ever existed. My own daughter audibly gasped when she opened my new unassuming box of coloured pencils and saw the the waxy vibrant tips.

When I fumble with things and I have to problem solve like I am now, willing my galloping horse to manifest...I think of how to explain to others how we can make what seems impossible possible.

#workshops #caringforcarers #sharingskills #artbringsjoy #porcelain #minature

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Jun 19

You get back on the horse, what else can you do
Miniature in porcelain

I might look back to this one day and think , oh no how could I show something so crude...but I doubt it, because I really love the very first horse I tried to make in clay. It looks like it was made in a cave! But has such integrity.

Oddly I like not knowing what I'm doing, in this world of competition and 'expertise' isn't it a relief to be innocent to materials and process. When I try really hard at something it's nearly always a sign I have infact lost my way.

When my work is not accepted for those hallowed awards I think, great can I get back to what I love again please and not concern myself with satisfying others.

In this relaxed state of happy absorption...the tenderness is given opportunity to flow. Curiosity brings new awareness and depths.

Fail as freedom.
#peisleyceramics #heroine #freedom

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Jun 17

The making of this drawing on porcelain features in my recently made film. I will share as soon as it's complete.
#peisleyplates #porcelain #entwined #enmeshed #oxygenatedblood #ofone #inseperable #theothersideofme #souljourney #close #closertomydreams

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Jun 17

Seated nude on fragment of porcelain
#peisleyplates #fragment #seatednude #porcelain #drawingonporcelain #separated

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Jun 17

A sweet felt piece ( as in emotionally felt) piece about attachment on porcelain
#peisleyplates #attachment #ifeelyoufeeling me #bond

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Jun 16

E V E R Y C H A N C E
Porcelain
#peisleyplates #drawing #everychance #malenude #solitude #reflection #portrait #fragment #thelast

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Jun 16

Miniature nudes...one with the sphere of all knowing and one looking.

Porcelain
( background by Ivan Generalic)
#peisleyceramics

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Jun 16

Miniature nude figure
Porcelain
( background by Ivan Generalic)
#peisleyceramics #minature #porcelain

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Jun 12

I am so angered by what I have read in this coverage. Please read for yourself if you care about human rights and the rights of people who identify as transgender.
She went missing on the 6th April but was not searched for by the authorities for 6 weeks!!!! because of beurocratic nonsense around her pronoun even though she was under psychiatric umbrellas and organisations who knew she was at risk.
Coincidentally I made an art work at this time called Ophelia of a non binery person drowned in a bath. It came out of nowhere but I felt compelled to make it.

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Jun 12

' A rose is still a rose no matter what name you call it'. Dimitri Kalogiannis
I am really saddened to hear that the amazing transgender beautiful person Dimitri Kalogiannis was found dead in Lesvos, Greece. Dimitri was an extraordinary person.
The film maker @tzeli_hadjidimitriou made a film about her where she talks about her difficult existence. The film, .'Mr.Dimitris and Mrs.Dimitroula' is available to view on You Tube.
I first met Dimitri in 1998 she was strutting along the harbour edge in the tiny fishing village of Skala Sikamineas on Lesvos in the Northern Aegean. She was wearing tight lemon coloured trunks , boldy showing an impressive amount of blonde chest hair, her hair swept back in full make up. She looked like an exotic bird on the cat walk. We watched her seemingly oblivious to us as we ate our ice cream on the bench below the Chapel. I wondered then how hard and isolated a life she surely had in this remote fishing village.
She experienced so much suffering. I shall miss seeing her, she was a glorious presence to behold.
#rip #dimitrikalogiannis #Skala Sikamineas #transgender #lesvos

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Jun 12

Without filters, without tidying up even ...my favourite studio. If you would like to visit my studio, purchase my work directly, speak to me directly about my work please dm me for a viewing. I am based in Whitstable, Kent. Peisley

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Jun 11

So what constitutes a drawing?
Today I had the pleasure of three hours with a friend discussing art. Ofcourse I am left with more questions than answers. Nourishing.
These are some porcelain mini beasts .
#whatisdrawing

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Jun 10

One more...
#peisleyplates #porcelain

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Jun 10

All that focus on attending and attachment then a piece snaps in half...what ever it is we are trying to do the opposite is also happening.
#peisleyplates #attachment #studio #porcelain #theoppositeisalsotrue

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Jun 10

Trauma causes us to.leave the self. It splits off as a safety mechanism a bit like the lizard will involuntarily lose its tail when threatened or caught. But we don't function so well with part of ourselves lost, numb or frozen.
People talk about 'finding the other half of themselves' in another human, the half that makes them complete, that's quite an expectation of another to be the half of us that we couldn't bare to realise. The makings of co- dependency.
I notice this contraction between the red and blue in my work, also the colours of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood. There is a sense of trying to make the system work, stitching parts of myself together in a Dr.Shelly making Ms Frankenstein kind of way. I want an integrated whole self God damn it but it can't be forced through, only chipped at like a marble sculpt that takes a very long time with a tiny file.
#wip #porcelain #peisleyplates #splitting #survivingtrauma

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Jun 9

Staying with the charge. Yesterday I listened to Somatic Abolitionism: Nurturing Healing Communities with Resmaa Menakem & Dr. Gabor Maté...it was heavy going , for a white person heavier, but so important and enlightening, grounding in the now, stretching to an awareness of ancestral trauma. Great great interview.
Resmaa spoke about staying with the charge when things are difficult or uncomfortable.
The week of interviews and the film about Gabors life long studying of Trauma is available to watch this week. By donation. If you like rich learning , to be moved and you like depth as I do. I love depth ! then I recommend it.
#wisdomoftrauma @gabormate #stayingwiththecharge #artistsstudio

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Jun 8

I FEEL YOU FEELING ME...(Thomas Hubl)
#peisleyplates #porcelain #itsnotyouitsme #drawingonporcelain #attachment #bonding #bound #enmeshed #one #ifeelyoufeelingme

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Jun 6

It's the middle of the night and I finally have an Etsy shop up and running from my website, don't all rush at once! Can I have a little ripple of applause please 😀...aghhh thanks for your support people so very very kind of you x
#goingtobed #screenheadache #randomfoot

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Jun 6

I have to send in up to 7 details of 'lonesome ' here and he don't reckon much on having his picture taken under normal circumstances. No sireeee
#lonesome #peisleyceramics

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