| Michael Casson |
| Born 1925. One of the foremost studio
potters in the world who was at the heart of the development of Studio
Ceramics, making pots continuously since 1945. Highlights of his career
include Founder member Craft Potters Association ‘56 (Chairman ‘63-’66);
Founder Harrow Studio Pottery Course ‘63; Film ‘Michael Casson,
Studio Potter’ ‘64; Head of Ceramics, Harrow School of Art ‘71-’73;
Presenter TV series ‘The Craft of the Potter’ ‘76; Awarded
OBE for ‘Services to his Craft’ ‘83; Vice Chairman British
Craft Council ‘85. Michael died in 2003. |
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| He exhibited, lectured and held
workshops all over the world and his pieces are included in every major
museum in the UK as well as museums in USA, Canada, Australia, Holland
etc. |
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| Eddie Curtiss |
Born 1953. Trained at Bath Academy
of art 1973-1976. After a year employed as a repetition thrower in a semi-industrial
pottery, he established his own workshop with his wife Margaret in 1979,
converting farm buildings in County Durham.
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| In 1999 he and his wife travelled
in Japan visiting potters and the trip had an unforgettable impact - his
subsequent work has concentrated on jugs and pitchers in porcelain, taken
to extreme limits in pursuit of qualities of elegance. |
Recent exhibitions include Broughton
Gallery, Scotland; Stokoe House Ceramics, Cumbria; Roundhouse Gallery,
Derbyshire; Green Gallery, Aberfoyle and Leith Gallery, Edinburgh. Solo
exhibitions also include Laburnum Ceramics, Penrith; Priors, Barnard Castle
and Washington Arts Centre.
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| Jack Doherty |
| Born in Northern Ireland in 1948.
Trained at Ulster College of Art and Design. On graduating, worked for
Kilkenny Design Workshops and set up his first studio in Scarva, Co. Down
in 1977. In 1983 he moved to Herefordshire. His current work is Soda-fired
porcelain, functional, large dishes and wall pieces. |
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| Recent exhibitions include Rufford
Craft Centre (Solo); Contemporary Ceramics, London; Alpha House Gallery,
Dorset; Eton Applied Arts, Windsor; Portsmouth Museum and the Morley Gallery,
London. He was elected Chair of the Craft Potters Association 1995-2000. |
| Awards include Gold Medals at the
International Ceramics Exhibition, Faenza Italy (1974) and at the International
Ceramics Biennial, Vallauris France (1976). |
| His work is in the permanent collections
of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Ulster Museum; Museum of Ceramics,
Faenza, Italy and the Crafts Council of Ireland, among others. |
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| David Frith |
| Born 1943. Trained at Stoke-on-Trent
College of Art. Established first workshop in Denbighshire in 1963. Founder
member of the Guild of North Wales Potters 1971. Fellow of the Craftsmen
Potters Association (vice-chairman 1984-90) and member of the Crafts Council
selected index. He works in reduction-fired stoneware clay - pieces are
individual, often on a large scale, and include platters, bottles, ginger
jars, store jars, pressed and extruded dishes. |
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He has exhibited and given workshops
all over the world, including recently at the North Carolina Potters Conference,
USA; Shun Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Craft Potters Association, London (solo);
Dartington Cider Press Centre, Devon; Lois and Reinier Gallery, Deventer,
Holland; The Metropole Arts Centre, Folkstone; Aberystwyth Arts Centre;
Plymouth Arts Centre; Bettles Gallery, Hampshire; St. James’s Gallery,
Bath and Primavera, Cambridge.
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| Tessa Fuchs |
| Born in Cheshire, Tessa Fuchs trained
at Salford Technical Art School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts,
London. She set up her studio in London making sculptural pieces and some
domestic ware using colourful matt glazes. Her work is inspired by her
interest in animals, plants, gardening, trees, landscape and painting. |
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| She has many works in museums and
private collections. One man exhibitions include the Craftsmen Potters
Shop, London; Salix gallery, Windsor; Commonwealth Institute, London;
Boadicea, London; Oxford Gallery; Falcon Gallery, Suffolk; New Ashgate
Gallery, Farnham and the Bohun Gallery, Henley. |
She has been the subject of a BBC
TV Film ‘In the Making’ and a video ‘Tessa Fuchs- a Potter
at Work’. Her work is included in many books and publications.
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| Walter Keeler |
Born in London 1942. Trained in pottery
at the Harrow School of Art. Set up his workshop in 1976 in South Wales,
producing domestic and individual pieces in saltglazed stoneware.
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| His pieces are instantly recognisable
through their distinctive shapes which are produced by throwing on the
wheel and altering in various ways. |
| By cutting, incising, impressing and
addition of ‘ribbing’ his pieces take on a distinctly ‘modern’
appearance although his influences are from the Japanese ‘Leach Tradition’.
He fires in an oil-fuelled saltglaze kiln, differing surface textures
being achieve by dipping in slips and sprayed pigments. |
| His work has become internationally
famous and has been exhibited in very many exhibitions both in this country
and abroad. It is represented in many public and private collections. |
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| John Leach |
| Born in St Ives, Cornwall 1939, grandson
of Bernard Leach. Apprenticed (1957) to Bernard and David Leach. Trained
with Ray Finch and Colin Pearson. Established pottery in Somerset in 1964,
making oil-fired stoneware. He built a wood-fired climbing kiln and now
all work is wood-fired, both domestic pots and individual pieces having
the distinctive flame markings. |
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| Exhibitions include the Victoria and
Albert Museum London, the Crafts Council London and galleries in Japan,
America and Denmark. His work is represented in many public collections
including the Victoria and Albert Museum London, Tate Gallery, St Ives,
Cornwall; National Museum of Wales; Somerset County Museum, the Crafts
Council Collection; Hanley Museum and the Schools Museum Service in various
counties. His 'black pots' are fired within a saggar in the kiln with
sawdust to produce areas of reduction and oxidation. |
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| Will Levi Marshall |
| Born 1969. Trained at Manchester Metropolitan
University (BA Hons) in 3D Design in wood/metal/ceramics, followed by
a Master of Fine Arts (Ceramics) from New York State College of Ceramics
at Alfred University, USA. He is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association
of Great Britain and Vice Chairman of The Edward Marshall Trust, a charity
furthering contemporary design. All work is hand thrown and decorated
oxidised stoneware. Selected pieces have additional lustre and transfer
decoration. The range covers tableware through to larger 'one off' pots,
notably dishes and vases. |
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| Recent exhibitions include the Scottish
Gallery, Edinburgh (solo); Atikin Dott, London; Manchester Metropolitan
University; JBK Gallery, Amsterdam; Ginger Gallery, Bristol; Roger Billcliff,
Glasgow (solo); Collins Gallery, Glasgow: Alden Biezen, Belgium; international
tour with British Council and Derek Top Gallery, Derbyshire. |
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| Richard Phethean |
| Born 1953. Trained at Camberwell School
of Art and Crafts. Worked as assistant to Janice Tchalenko and Colin Pearson
before setting up his own studio in London in 1978. He moved to Oxfordshire
in 1999. He produces a range of tableware in limited edition and medium
to large individual pieces, in red earthenware, brush decorated with coloured
slip washes. |
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| He is a Fellow of the Craft Potters
Association and included in the Crafts Council selected index. Widely
exhibited, including at Alpha House Gallery, Dorset; Bluecoat Display
Centre, Liverpool; Bettles Gallery, Hampshire; Collection Gallery, Herefordshire;
Contemporary Ceramics, London; Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey;
New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey and the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. |
| He is a visiting tutor to the Harrow
Ceramics degree course and author of the book 'Complete Potter - Throwing'
published by Batsford books in 1993. |
