UNTO THIS LAST

I wish I could attend this talk. they will hopefully publish the transcription somewhere.
Glenn Adamson, editor of The Craft reader and co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft, will be in conversation with John Roberts, author of Intangibities of Form, about the re-emergence of contemporary artists adopting craft skills and how this plays out with capitalist modes of production.
this is the link 

imperfections perfected

Article in FT
Article in Guardian

Craft news making the headlines! -well maybe not the headlines, but making the papers at least.

fired up!

Article from the times educational supplement on crafts council initiative to get school firing old kilns.
full article here

The Speed of Craft

Glenn Adamson at Collect, Saatchi Gallery 2010,

Salt firing results

 

          

 

 

plate cracked - bummer.

COLLECT

Steven Bird - War on Pottery.

Just booked my train to london for COLLECT at the Saatchi gallery this weekend... how exciting!

Lochinver

Salt firing with Fergus Stewart
photos on The GSA Ceramics Blog

Some things I was making for the Salt firing....

The textures worked really well. The slips came out the wrong colour but im happy with the results. I'll get them photographed and posted soon.

3rd yr trip to bardon mill!

Charlie Youle & Bevis Martin

http://www.martinandyoule.com/

A secondary Education, 2009, Glazed and unglazed ceramics, board and fabric.

Sand table with thinkers, 2009, Glazed ceramics, wood, sand and paint.

Civic Sculpture, 2009. Ceramics, card paint and wood

Urs Fischer

"...what happens when the hand made is replicated at industrial scale. This is a fair description of a recent group of monumental sculptures by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer, in which five lumps of clay, each casually squeezed in the artist's palm, were scanned, multiplied  many times in size and cast in aluminium. Fischer's fingerprints, now over a meter wide, are out only visual anchors in the massive blur if metal. That such objects can be made at all is astounding (almost needless to say, the casting work was done in China). But for all the grandiose egomania of this project, the subject remains the intimate and humble matter of human touch. " Glenn Adamson. crafts march/april 2010.