PhD

  • "Evoking Intimacy: Touch and the Thoughtful Body in Sculptural Ceramics", Royal College of Art, London, 2008. Abstract.

Peer Reviewed Writing:
Journal Articles, Conference Papers, and Poster Presentations

  • "Embracing sculptural ceramics: a lived experience of touch in art" (journal paper), The Senses & Society 4.3, November 2009.
  • "Towards a Touch Aesthetic" (conference paper), Intersections, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2–4 April 2009.
  • "'Like hugging an extension of myself': the creation of artworks that engage the body's sense of touch", (conference paper), The Material Body, University of Cambridge, 27-29 March 2009. Soon to be published.
  • "Touch, Tactility, and the Thoughtful Body: Embracing Well-being through Sculpture" (poster presentation), Classification, Identity and The Body: Symposium of the Health & Welfare Research Group, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, 13 June 2008.
  • "Embracing Ceramics: A bodily engagement" (conference paper), Idea & Act: A Ceramics Symposium, Bath Spa University, 7 September 2007.
  • "Towards the Embrace: a case study of an emergent, interwoven research methodology in sculptural ceramics" (published conference paper), New Craft – Future Voices International Conference Proceedings, Georgina Follett and Louise Valentine, eds., Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Scotland, 4-6 July 2007, pp. 35-46. (click here to view original proposal, and here to view original exhibition proposal)
  • "Engaging the Body with Sculptural Ceramics" (conference paper), Parallels and Connections, University of Sunderland, National Glass Centre, 1-2 March 2007.
  • "Touching the Body: A Ceramic Possibility" (journal paper), Interpreting Ceramics, Issue 8, (2006).
  • "Touch and the Caress: Scientific Knowledge Applied to Tactile Sculptural Ceramics" (conference paper), Atoms to Art 1, Research Network for Science + Art for Ceramics + Glass, Manchester Art Gallery, 13-14 September 2005. (Downloadable abstract)

Feature Articles

  • "First you heat the water…", an article on Japanese Tea Ceremony, Artesian, Issue Two, 2009.
  • "Breaking the Taboo: Bonnie Kemske on Touch", Ceramic Review, Issue 239, September/October 2009.
  • "Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination" (catalogue), Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Funded by The Leverhulme Trust, The Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, March 2009 – November 2010, pp. 86-87.
  • "Tilted & Skewed: Robert Dawson", Ceramic Review, Issue 236, March/April 2009, pp. 26-31.
  • "Market Forces: Jonathan Keep Tableware", Ceramic Review, Issue 232, July/August 2008, pp. 30-35.
  • "The Beauty of Imperfection", Ceramic Review, Issue 225, May/June 2007.
  • "Evoking Intimacies: Sculptural Ceramics that Engage the Body", Research RCA, Sandra Kemp, ed., Royal College of Art, London, 2007, pp. 50-52.
  • "On Being a Visiting Artist", Ceramics Monthly, Ohio USA, May 2001.
  • "A Potter’s Day", Ceramic Review, Issue 172, July/August 1998.

Articles about the Artist

  • Art Elements: Biological, Global, and Interdisciplinary Connections. Bickley-Green, C. (author), Dubuque, IA: Kendal Hunt Publisher. 2009.
  • Contemporary Ceramics – International Perspective, Emmanuel Cooper (author), Thames and Hudson, London, 2009.
  • "In Conversation with Merleau-Ponty: Enhancing Embodiment with Art beyond Sight", Anna Willieme (presenter), philoSOPHIA, 3rd Annual Meeting, May 27-29, 2009, New York, New York, USA.
  • "Elastic/Expanding: Conceptual ceramics", Jo Dahn (author), in Extra/ordinary:craft culture and contemporary art, Maria Elena Buszek (editor), Duke University Press, 2008.
  • "Bonnie Kemske – Ceramic Artist", Quality BRITAIN, published by the British Embassy, Tokyo, 1997.
  • "Seven on Form" by David Whiting, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Australia, Issue 11.

Collaborations

  • "Towards the Embrace: Movement and Communication", a public participation dance/movement collaboration with Adèle Thompson, Dancer-in-Residence, Queens College, University of Cambridge, and the Queens Contemporary Dance Group, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, October 28, 2009.
  • "Using tactile embedded figures for determining weak central coherence in children with autism", Department of Developmental Psychiatry, Learning Disability, University of Cambridge (on-going).
  • "The Creator and the Clay – a sculpture/dance/music collaboration", Mumford Theatre, part of a lecture-performance evening that included poetry presentations by Archbishop Rowan Williams and award-winning Irish poet, Micheal O’Siadhail. The Theology Through the Arts Project, University of Cambridge, November 27, 1998.