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Discussing the works in the Ceramic Contemporaries 4 exhibition Knowledge and Understanding: Different Ways of Working Emilie Taylor does not class herself as a ceramist, but as an artist/sculptor. The title of her work gives a first clue as to the concerns that inspired it. ‘First Blood’ immediately evokes some significant event, and she is interested in rites of passage: first-time hunters daubed with blood from the kill; first menstruation; the Last Supper; the first communion. These themes are embodied in the rich red surfaces of her thirteen horned vessels (the number itself having superstitious significance, of course). Emilie Taylor First Blood Material: earthenware Technique: slip cast.