British Ceramics Biennial
Crafts magazine went to Stoke for a look round the British Ceramics Biennial. Here are a few things that caught our eye...
First stop, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery to see Awards, an exhibition of work selected for ‘creativity, innovation and achievement’. Although I should be concentrating on what’s inside, how cool is this exterior!
Work by Stephen Dixon on show at Awards. Each pig head is named after a politician whose snout has been in the expenses trough.
Detail of an installation by Fran Priest
Details of work by collective The New English.
After Awards we went to see Neil Brownsword’s video installation of Marl Hole at Airspace Gallery. Click here for Crafts magazine’s blog following the work’s incredible creation. A trailer for the project can be seen here.
Over to Fresh at Emma Bridgewater Pottery, this exhibition centred on emerging makers and designers.
Caroline Tattersall’s installation – a constant drip onto a table set with unfired ceramics – was being set up at the time we visited, but these pieces showed the ghostly results of prior performance.
Jaime Hayon’s sparkly bauble of a retrospective took over one end of the long space at Fresh.
Here’s Earthern Vessels, an installation of over 200 pots from four pottery families in Gujurat, India.
Finishing just as we arrived, here’s Stephen Dixon’s Monopoly at Gladstone Pottery Museum & Roslyn Works. Part of the Guerrilla Ceramics programme.
The irresistible close-up.
...and they still had loads of flowers left.
At the Etruria Industrial Museum, Andrea Walsh presented Of Dust, an installation of delicate cups placed amongst the gears of Jesse Shirley’s nineteenth century bone mill.
British Ceramics Biennial
3 October – 13 December 2009
www.stokeceramicsfestival.co.uk
