Cultured Canines

Inspired by ceramics of the ancient Mediterranean world, Cultured Canines highlights the mythology built into the identity and cultural meaning of twelve different dog breeds. 

Our companionship with dogs has a long and winding history. While scientists date the earliest known co-burial of human and canine to 15,000 years ago, evidence also suggests the existence of a cross-species relationship beginning some 17,000 years previous, when the wolf and dog separated genetically. Modern dog breeds are defined by their specific historical and contemporary human-canine relationships. Cultured Canines encourages the viewer to consider how the histories and lives of animals are perceived, and to appreciate the actual and imagined roles animals play in our lives.

Working with Dr Eleni Aloupi-Siotis and team at Attic Black | Thetis Authentics, this collaboration looks to combine techniques and manufacturing processes of ancient ceramics with new designs. 

Attic Black | Thetis Authentics uses ancient techniques in conjunction with scientific analysis to reproduce ancient ceramics.

Each piece is named after a person significant to the history of that breed.