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Writing & Editorial
In addition to her studio practice, Noa Chernichovsky is a writer and a member of the editorial board at Textura Magazine for Material Culture, supported by Beit Binyamini, The Israeli Ceramic Center, Israel
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Essays & Articles — Textura Magazine
2026 "Living in the Shadow: Haimi Fenichel — Returning to Childhood Materials "Textura Magazine, January 2026A review of Haimi Fenichel's solo exhibition exploring grief, Israeli identity, and memory through sprayed plaster, terrazzo, and mud — connecting the artist's personal loss to broader national trauma.
2025"Glass Circle — Israel Museum"Textura Magazine, September 2025A review of Daphna Kapman's exhibition at the Israel Museum, where she combines new glass works with Byzantine-era archaeological glass from the Apollonia site — an unprecedented collaboration between contemporary art and archaeology.
2025"Elusive Spaces"Textura Magazine, July 2025A review of four concurrent solo exhibitions at the Ramat Hasharon Municipal Gallery, united by the Buddhist concept of impermanence — presenting artworks that engage with evanescent spaces and the fluid nature of matter.
2025"A Unique Local Seal: Ziona Shimshi"Textura Magazine, February 2025A review of a posthumous solo exhibition of Ziona Shami's textile and ceramic works at the Herzliya Museum, examining how she blurred the boundaries between crafts to create a singular artistic identity.
2024"Poetic Scale: Irit Hamo"Textura Magazine, August 2024A review of Irit Hemo's solo exhibition at the Herzliya Museum, where three monumental works explore Israeli modernist aesthetics of the 1950s–60s and challenge the hierarchy between fine art and craft.
2024"Peel the Truth"Textura Magazine, January 2024A review of a group exhibition at the Geological Museum in Ramat Hasharon, where twelve Israeli artists explore humanity's relationship with nature — distinguishing subjective artistic truth from scientific observation.
2023"Islands of Honey: Richard Slee"Textura Magazine, July 2023A review of Richard Slee's exhibition at Hales Gallery, London, where hundreds of colourful ceramic "islands" form a fantastical landscape that satirises empty political promises in the aftermath of Brexit.
2023"A Unique Encounter: Edmund de Waal"Textura Magazine, May 2023On Edmund de Waal's three porcelain works — created for the 2019 Venice Biennale and addressing exile and Jewish heritage — becoming permanent installations in Israel's new National Library in Jerusalem.
2022"Transition to the Sublime Object"Textura Magazine, December 2022A review of a group exhibition at the Israeli Art Gallery in Kibbutz Tivon, where nine artists use seriality as a creative strategy — questioning the ideal of the singular, sublime object.
2022"Life in the Collection"Textura Magazine, September 2022On Chatsworth House and its private collection, exploring how contemporary ceramics by Edmund de Waal and Pippin Drysdale are woven into the historic estate — creating an intimacy with art that museums rarely allow.
2022"Place to Place: Adi Toch"Textura Magazine, June 2022A profile of London-based Israeli maker Adi Toch, whose practice moves between cultures, materials, and the intimate spaces between them.
2022 "Layers of Consciousness: Luke Fuller" Textura Magazine, March 2022A review of Luke Fuller's "Terra – Form" at Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London — ceramic sculptures with layered geological surfaces that examine the ambiguous relationship between human intervention and the natural world.
2022 "Material Preacher: Theaster Gates" Textura Magazine, January 2022A critical essay on Theaster Gates — artist, activist, and material thinker — and his transformation of humble materials into monuments of community and memory.