Women and Ceramics – Decorating

Studio potters often rejected colourful surface pattern because of its commercial connotations. Around 1980 a number of women began to reclaim decoration.

Janice Tchalenko led the way and very successfully developed the designs for Dart Pottery. Mary Rose Young, Philomena Pretsell, Morgen Hall and Annabeth Rosen (USA) all use decorative patterns and flower and fruit imagery in provocative and ironic ways

Gendered Vessels: Women and Ceramics by Moira Vincentelli

• Inroduction
• Women and Ceramics – Collecting
• Women and Ceramics – Cyprus
• Women and Ceramics – Decorating
• Women and Ceramics – Early Studio Pottery
• Women and Ceramics – Figures
• Women and Ceramics – Gendered Vessels Biographies
• Women and Ceramics – Kabylie, Algeria
• Women and Ceramics – Reclaiming Traditional Women’s Techniques
• Women and Ceramics – Royal College of Art
• Women and Ceramics – Studio Pottery after 1950
• Women and Ceramics – Women as Promoters