Elizabeth Fritsch works loaned
The Crafts Council will loan five pieces by ceramist Elizabeth Fritsch to Amgueddfa Cymru -National Museum Wales for their new exhibition Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels by Elizabeth Fritsch, 2 October 2010 to 2 January 2011
To coincide with Fritsch’s 70th birthday Dynamic Structures will feature a range of Fritsch’s most significant early works through to recently made pieces and will include pieces rarely or never displayed before.
Fritsch graduated from the Royal College of Art in the early 1970s and her distinctive style of ‘flattened 2½-dimensional’ forms decorated with graphic visual illusions soon won her acclaim. She has been one of the leading ceramists in the UK since then.
The Crafts Council is loaning five pieces from the late 1970s to the exhibition that is curated by Fritsch and will focus on the themes that have influenced her most: music, mathematics, geology, mythology, and the history of art.
Dynamic Structures presents an opportunity to see a large selection of one of the UK’s leading makers.
There are currently 70 objects on loan from the Crafts Council Collection at venues across the UK. Representing the very best in British craft over the last 35 years, the Crafts Council Collection covers a wide range of contemporary craft practice with more than 1,400 fascinating objects from both established figures and up-and-coming names. You can also see five objects from the Crafts Council Collection on the BBC History of the World website (2009 onwards on the timeline) www.bbc.co.uk
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For more information contact Jill Read, Press Officer, Crafts Council on T: 020 7278 7700 or email media@craftscouncil.org.uk
Notes to Editors
• Dynamic Structures is on at National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. Tel: 029 2039 7951, www.museumwales.ac.uk
• Objects in the Crafts Council Collection are available for loan. For more information on borrowing from the Collection, please visit the Crafts Council website or contact Birgit Dohrendorf, Registrar, Crafts Council, tel: 020 7806 2525, email b_dohrendorf@craftscouncil.org.uk Images of all objects can also be viewed in our online image library through Photostore on the website www.craftscouncil.org.uk
• The Crafts Council’s goal is to make the UK the best place to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craft.
o We believe that craft plays a dynamic and vigorous role in the UK’s social, economic and cultural life.
o We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to make, see, collect and learn about craft.
o We believe that the strength of craft lies in its use of traditional and contemporary techniques, ideas and materials to make extraordinary new work.
o We believe that the future of craft lies in nurturing talent; children and young people must be able to learn about craft at school and have access to excellent teaching throughout their education.
• 12% of the UK population visited a craft exhibition in 2009/10, and 18% participated in craft activity in the same year (DCMS/ACE Taking Part data update August 2010). (Taking Part is an ongoing survey being carried out by Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Arts Council England (ACE)
• More than 2.8 million visits were made to the Crafts Council website in 2009. To find out everything you need to know about where to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craft visit www.craftscouncil.org.uk
• The Crafts Council is supported by Arts Council England. Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives. As the national development agency for the arts, it supports a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Between 2008 and 2011, Arts Council England will invest £1.3 billion of public money from government and a further £0.3 billion from the National Lottery to create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.
