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Studio Potters
This is a list of notable studio potters. A studio potter is one who is a modern artist or artisan, who either works alone or in a small group, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by themselves.Emmanuel Cooper, ''Ten Thousand Years of Pottery''. British Museum Press, 2000. . Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware, cookware and non-functional wares such as sculpture. Studio potters can be referred to as ceramic artists, ceramists, ceramicists or as an artist who uses clay as a medium. Australian studio potters British studio potters Canadian studio potters Dutch studio potters French studio potters Hungarian studio potters Japanese studio potters New Zealand studio potters Nigerian studio potters Turkish studio potters *Füreya Koral * Sencer Sarı * Tankut Öktem * Jale Yılmabaşar United States studio potters See also * American art potter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a ''potter'' is also called a ''pottery'' (plural "potteries"). The definition of ''pottery'', used by the ASTM International, is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products". In art history and archaeology, especially of ancient and prehistoric periods, "pottery" often means vessels only, and sculpted figurines of the same material are called "terracottas". Pottery is one of the oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic period, with ceramic objects like the Gravettian culture Venus of Dolnà Věstonice figurine discovered in the Czech Republic dating back to 29,000–25,000 BC, and pottery vessels that were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Baldwin
Gordon Baldwin OBE (born 1932 in Lincoln) is an English studio potter. He attended the Lincoln School of Art where he was initially studied painting under Tony Bartl; it was here at Lincoln where he was first introduced to studio potter and ceramics tutor Robert Blatherwick who influenced his work. Baldwin later studied at the Central School of Art and Design (1950–53) and was teacher of Ceramics and Sculpture at Eton College for 39 years. Baldwin was awarded an OBE in 1992 and an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London in 2000. He was influenced by contemporary sculpture and has worked with both earthenware and stoneware. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in many public collections. See also *Studio pottery Studio pottery is pottery made by professional and amateur artists or artisans working alone or in small groups, making unique items or short runs. Typically, all stages of manufacture are carried out by the artists themsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waistel Cooper
Waistel Cooper (19 April 1921 – 15 January 2003) was a British studio potter. Biography Cooper was born in Ayr, Scotland and initially studied painting at Hospitalfield School of Art during 1937 and 1938. At Hospitalfield, Waistel was taught by James Cowie who used Waistel as a model for his masterpiece 'An Outdoor School of Painting', in collection of the Tate Gallery. Waistel's fellow students at Hospitalfield included Robert MacBryde, Robert Colquhoun, Patrick Hennessey and Robert Henderson Blythe. Subsequently, Waistel won a painting scholarship to Edinburgh College of Art, though these studies were interrupted by the war. Cooper first flirted with pottery on a portrait commission in Iceland, and returned to England to set up a pottery studio in the village of Porlock, Somerset in 1950. Henry Rothschild (1913–2009) gave Cooper a one-man show at his craft gallery Primavera in August 1955. Often compared to contemporary London based studio potters Coper and Lucie Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Cooper
Emmanuel Cooper (12 December 193821 January 2012)"Emmanuel Cooper obituary" '''', 30 January 2012. was a British , advocate for and writer on arts and crafts. Biography Born in ,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Constantinidis
Joanna Constantinidis née Connell, (12 December 1927 – 1 August 2000) was an English potter and ceramic artist. Biography Constantinidis was born in York and grew up in Sheffield Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties o ... where she attended Ecclesfield Grammar School between 1939 and 1945 before studying painting at Sheffield Art College until 1949. At Sheffield she was introduced to ceramics and pottery making and in 1951 became a ceramics lecturer at Chelmsford Technical College, later part of the Essex Institute of Higher Education. This position, which she held until her, early, retirement in 1989, allowed Constantinidis to experiment and develop her own style and technical abilities. In time she developed innovative methods of throwing, firing and glazing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Collins (potter)
Nic Collins is a woodfire potter who works in Devon, England, on the edge of Dartmoor. Early life Collins was born in 1958, in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He is a self-taught woodfire potter who started building kilns and wheels during his 20s. He experimented with raku, salt glazing, and sawdust firing, using clay sourced from local riverbanks. Collins had formal schooling in ceramics from Derby College of Art from 1985 to 1986 before going to Italy and Germany to work in other studios. Process Collins uses stoneware clay thrown on a kick wheel. He finds his aesthetics through imperfections. For example, he claims to have had a crush on a girl because she had a large scar on her face. Collins way of throwing continues with the way he decorates his pots. Through the woodfire process, he creates imperfections by placing pots on their side on top of shells. Collins stated that the process of putting pots on their sides and stacking them, the interesting area of the pots is o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Clark (ceramicist)
Kenneth Inman Carr Clark (31 July 1922 – 10 June 2012) was a New Zealand-born British ceramicist, best known for his decorative tiles. Early life and family Born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 31 July 1922, Clark was the son of Aubrey Sherman Clark, a farms inspector, and his wife, Annie Barbara Louisa Clark (née Inman). Through his mother, Clark was a great-grandson of William Inman, founder of passenger shipping company, the Inman Line. On his father's side, he was related to the 18th-century English architect, John Carr. Clark spent most of his childhood in Nelson and was educated at Nelson College from 1937 to 1941, where he won several prizes for drawing. In World War II, he initially enlisted in the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, but subsequently transferred to the Royal Navy. He was present during the Normandy landings, and was mentioned in dispatches. Ceramics After the end of the war, Clark remained in Britain and took up an ex-serviceman's scholarship at Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Chivers
Bruce Chivers (born 1954 in Australia) is a studio potter described by writer and art critic Peter Davies "as an artist whose work shines with a flowing lyricism in which decoration is intrinsically linked to form but equally linked to natural random processes of image formation of the kind favoured by the American Abstract Expressionist and the European "matter" painters. Chivers studied at Salisbury Teachers College, Adelaide university 1973-77. As an established maker and member of the Potters Guild of South Australia he travelled to England in 1985 to complete an invited residency and to exhibit in London. After traveling extensively throughout Europe and with the support and friendship of David Leach at Lowerdown pottery, he established his first UK workshop in Devon at nearby Chudleigh on the edge of Dartmoor. Chivers accepted the post of artist-in-residence at South Devon College (Plymouth University) in 2005, and consequently became lead lecturer on the 3D Design cera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Casson
Michael Casson OBE (2 April 1925 - 12 December 2003) born in London, was an English studio potter, referred to as "respected and charismatic". He studied art and woodwork at Shoreditch College, and ceramics at Hornsey College of Art, and was one of the founding potters of the Craft Potters Association, a co-operative that acquired a shop and gallery in central London in 1958. In 1976, Casson devised and presented "The Craft of the Potter" for the BBC a series that involved practical demonstrations and discussion about the craft of the potter. See also *Studio pottery Studio pottery is pottery made by professional and amateur artists or artisans working alone or in small groups, making unique items or short runs. Typically, all stages of manufacture are carried out by the artists themselves.Emmanuel Cooper, ... References External links Michael Casson obituary {{DEFAULTSORT:Casson, Michael 1925 births 2003 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire Arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Cardew
Seth Cardew (11 November 1934 – 2 February 2016) was an English studio potter. He was the eldest son of fellow potter Michael Cardew and the brother of the composer Cornelius Cardew. Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He began his education as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School and Midhurst Grammar School, he then studied painting at Chelsea School of Art London and sculpture at Camberwell School of Art. He then worked as a model maker at Pinewood, Elstree and Sheperton Studios from 1960 to 1970, including work on the 1962 film ''Satan Never Sleeps'' and ''Cleopatra'' in 1963. Cardew met his first wife Jutta Zemke whilst studying at Chelsea School of Art and together they had three children, Aeschylus, Ara and Gaea. Seth's son, Ara Cardew, is also a potter who worked at Wenford Bridge from 1981 until 1997 when he relocated to the US. After his father's death in 1983, Seth took over the running of Wenford Bridge Pottery in Cornwall and carried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cardew
Michael Ambrose Cardew (1901–1983), was an English studio potter who worked in West Africa for twenty years. Early life Cardew was born in Wimbledon, London, the fourth child of Arthur Cardew, a civil servant, and Alexandra Kitchin, the eldest daughter of G.W.Kitchin,Clark, Garth, ''Michael Cardew'', London: Faber and Faber, 1976 the first Chancellor of Durham University. His family had a holiday home in North Devon, where Arthur Cardew collected Devon country pottery. Cardew first saw this pottery being made in the workshop of Edwin Beer Fishley at Fremington and learned to make pottery on the wheel from Fishley's grandson, William Fishley Holland. He gained a scholarship to read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford. Already preoccupied with pottery, he graduated with a third class degree in 1923. St Ives and Wenford Bridge Cardew was the first apprentice at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall, in 1923. He shared an interest in slipware with Bernard Leach and was inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Caiger-Smith
Alan Caiger-Smith MBE (8 February 1930 – 21 February 2020) was a British ceramicist, studio potter and writer on pottery. Life and work Caiger-Smith was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and read history at King's College, Cambridge (1949-1952). He trained in pottery at the Central School of Art & Design in 1954 under Dora Billington. According to Grove Art, Alan Caiger-Smith established the Aldermaston Pottery in 1955, "a cooperative workshop of about seven potters making functional domestic ware and tiles, as well as individual commissions and one-off pots. By trial and error he revived and perfected two virtually lost techniques: the use of tin glaze and painted pigments on red earthenware clay, and the firing of lustres on to tin glazes." However, "virtually lost" is questionable: in his ''Lustre Pottery'', Caiger-Smith himself covers relatively recent revivals of lustreware by William De Morgan, Vilmos Zsolnay, Clà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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