A thoughtful conversation with Heidi McKenzie on ancestry, race, family archives, history, belonging and identity. Featured is McKenzie discussing her explorative process of archival research and reflecting on how ceramics can hold personal and collective memory within a contemporary practice.
Photo courtesy of Colour & Ceramics Podcast
“I’m hoping people will be called to tell their own stories … It’s an amazing serendipity that happened out of the Indo-Caribbean HerStories, I didn't set out to do a piece about my own personal history, I set out to highlight women's role in the struggle for rights, putting an end to child labour and indentureship etc. through a feminist lens, but then I thought hard and decided I will include myself”