Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Resistance’ has been reproduced in full on a jug made by Sussex Lustreware to raise funds for the British Red Cross in Ukraine.
The jug is decorated with illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, the text has been set by Deborah Hopson-Wolpe in type designed by her father, Berthold Wolpe, and it comes in a presentation box made by bookbinder Christopher Shaw.
The jug is being offered at auction on Sunday 18 December 2022 at the Freud Museum in London.
Beauty & Beast, published by Design for Today and available
Words: Olivia McCannon
Pictures: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Clive Hicks-Jenkins is collaborating with the interior design company, Tinsmiths of Ledbury, on a new range of textiles exploring the great medieval tradition of the flowery mead and enclosed garden. Much of the imagery for the project is developing from his fourteen-print Sir Gawain and the Green Knight series with Penfold Press, used in the 2018 illustrated edition of Simon Armitage’s translation of the poem for Faber & Faber.
