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MFI, Rave Culture Theory vase by Clink Street Ceramics

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Remember a well-spent youth, from the thump of the bass to the moves on the dancefloor, with this one-of-a-kind vase by Clink Street Ceramics celebrating the origins of rave culture. Exclusive to the V&A Shop, the vase takes its name from a flyer for Club MFI, standing for Mad For It, a prominent London rave night that opened in 1988, just one of the visual cues referenced on this richly decorated piece.

 

The series of stoneware vases explores the origins of rave culture in the UK and the USA in the early 1990s, including the legendary Acid House raves held in a nightclub on Clink Street in 1988. Discarded flyers, images and memories discovered through archival research have been applied to the pieces as transfer decoration, examining the visual language of early rave culture.

 

Thrown on a traditional potter's wheel in the Clink Street studio, the vase is fired three times and decorated by hand to create a playful, textured piece with huge decorative appeal.

 

There may be anomalies in the ceramic due to its handmade nature. The vase is for decorative use only and designed to function as a standalone art object.

Author/Artist/Designer

Clink Street Ceramics

Dimensions

16cm height x 8.5cm diameter (6.2 x 3.3in)

Composition

Clay: Staffordshire stoneware, pigmented clay slips, transparent glaze, ceramic in-glaze transfers

Colour

Blue

Product code

171903

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