'Industry Painting (Ceramic mould making studio, Stoke-on-Trent)', 2013
16/12/13 - 7/3/14
JACK BRINDLEY, CLIVE BOWEN, JANE BUSTIN, MICHAEL CARDEW, EDWIN BEER FISHLEY, THE GRANCHESTER POTTERY, JESSICA JACKSON HUTCHINS, BERNARD LEACH, JANET LEACH, KATE NEWBY, CHRIS PRINDL, GIDEON RUBIN, NICOLA TASSIE, JESSE WINE, MIZUYO YAMASHITA
Despite a recent tendency to see ceramics and the modern British art movement as separate disciplines the two are closely interwoven. The approaches of artists working in clay such as Bernard Leach, considered the father of the British studio pottery, and Michael Cardew mirrored the Modernist ideas gaining currency in Britain in the early 1920’s in both painting and sculpture. Post war art in Britain drew upon - amongst other things - the tradition of the handmade. This is especially true in St Ives where Bernard Leach chose to set up his first pottery. Leach united the classical pottery traditions of Asia including their taste for imperfections with those of English slipware potters to define the modernist vernacular revival.
JACK BRINDLEY, CLIVE BOWEN, JANE BUSTIN, MICHAEL CARDEW, EDWIN BEER FISHLEY, THE GRANCHESTER POTTERY, JESSICA JACKSON HUTCHINS, BERNARD LEACH, JANET LEACH, KATE NEWBY, CHRIS PRINDL, GIDEON RUBIN, NICOLA TASSIE, JESSE WINE, MIZUYO YAMASHITA
Despite a recent tendency to see ceramics and the modern British art movement as separate disciplines the two are closely interwoven. The approaches of artists working in clay such as Bernard Leach, considered the father of the British studio pottery, and Michael Cardew mirrored the Modernist ideas gaining currency in Britain in the early 1920’s in both painting and sculpture. Post war art in Britain drew upon - amongst other things - the tradition of the handmade. This is especially true in St Ives where Bernard Leach chose to set up his first pottery. Leach united the classical pottery traditions of Asia including their taste for imperfections with those of English slipware potters to define the modernist vernacular revival.