‘Flightlines’ podcast champions women in ceramics

Beyond the studio and gallery, women ceramicists navigate adaptation, collaboration, and resilience in ways that remain largely unrecognized. Shaped by interaction and coexistence, their practices challenge traditional models of making. Through conversations between ceramicists redefining the field, we bring these overlooked creative approaches into focus, celebrating ingenuity, connection, and the art of living with clay in a series of podcasts called Flightlines: Women’s Lives Lived through Clay.  This podcast is a collaboration between Cj O’Neill and Natasha Mayo. 

To coincide with International Women’s Day 2025, CJ and Natasha selected 3 women with work featured in CoCA’s exhibition the ‘Wall of Women’ (curated by Helen Walsh) – Sara Radstone, Hannah McAndrew and Susan Halls – and invited them to discuss clay in all its forms with other women ceramicists – Emilie Taylor, Sharon Griffin, Jacqui Ramrayka and Sarah Christie – weaving narratives both within and outwards from the collection, to encourage meaningful dialogues in support of women in the field today.

The conversations are accessible from the gallery space and enable visitors to understand more about the lives of the women behind the objects. These often humble, poignant and humorous interactions cover an incredible breadth of topics – motherhood, edgelands, witches, community, the role of clay, resilience and much, much more.

“Thank you to all the women involved in the current and forthcoming episodes, with great thanks to sound artist Heledd Evans for the intro music and production support”, says Dr. O’Neill. 

The podcasts are available on Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/44b6gD7H0P3Xb65igdBRmA – or search for Flightlines!

For more information on the podcast and all the artists involved, please see: www.linktr.ee/flightlines