In the post-war period the production of studio pottery in Britain expanded. Pottery was being taught much more widely in art colleges and in schools and the new prosperity created a taste for modern design and distinctive household decoration Women were gaining access to higher education and it was easier to train in ceramics. The huge impact of Bernard Leach… Read More
Women and Ceramics – Early Studio Pottery
Studio pottery in Britain was a product of the early twentieth century. Middle-class art school trained artists began to make pottery undertaking the whole process for themselves. Previously pottery production, especially throwing and firing, had been an artisan activity. For women who took up the craft it broke both class and gender stereotypes. Frances Richards set up her kiln in… Read More
Women and Ceramics – Collecting
Charlotte Schreiber or as she is better known in Wales, Lady Charlotte Guest, was one of the most prolific ceramic collectors of the nineteenth century. Together with her second husband, Charles Schreiber, she acquired pottery and porcelain in Britain and on many tours in continental Europe. In her later years, as a widow, she undertook the task of cataloguing her… Read More
Women and Ceramics – Cyprus
In Cyprus there are still a number of villages which preserve the old traditions of hand-building pottery. In the 19th century it was frequently a family business where men made the huge storage jars which are too large to be made on the wheel, sometimes travelling round to make pots where they were needed, while the women made a wide… Read More
Women and Ceramics – Kabylie, Algeria
In most Berber cultures in North Africa women still make pottery for domestic use and display. The painted decorations and complex forms are part of a wider female visual culture which also includes wall decoration, weaving and distinctive highly colourful female costume and jewellery. This female tradition is quite distinct from the Islamic influences which dominate the urban centres where… Read More
Naming the Animals
18th October 2015 to 31st January 2016 Opening hours: Monday–Saturday,10am–8pm. Sunday, 1pm–5pm Image: Fish Dog by Susan Halls, 1997 This exhibition takes its title from David Cleverley’s ceramic sculpture, Adam naming the animals. The work makes reference to nineteenth century Staffordshire figures and is based on a Biblical theme that has a long history in folk art and popular culture.… Read More
Philip Eglin Slipping the Trail
& Responding to the Buckley Pottery in the Aberystwyth Collection 20th June to 9th August 2015 Opening hours: Monday–Saturday, 10am–8pm. Sunday, 1pm–5pm The exhibition is a collaboration between the ceramic collection at Aberystwyth and Philip Eglin, one of the major ceramicists in the UK. Over the course of the project Eglin visited the collection and made drawings and photographs of… Read More
The Hot Pot Project
Ann Car Collection In January 2014 we accepted a major acquisition of 330 pieces of studio pottery to be known as the Ann Carr collection. is was donated to the University by Julian Carr in memory of his mother Ann Carr (1928-2013) who was a friend, neighbour and admirer of Michael Cardew. As part of his close circle in the… Read More
Ceramic Celebration: South Wales Potters’ 50th Anniversary
8/11/2014-10/01/2015 An exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the South Wales Potters, one of the country’s leading ceramic groups. Ceramic Celebration will feature work by SWP’s president Walter Keeler and founder members Janet and Frank Hamer. Presenting work by 20 of the group’s current members the exhibition will encompass the diversity of contemporary ceramic practice. Daniel Boyle, Jason Braham, Rebecca… Read More
Merge / Diverge
An exhibition of work from a diverse international group of MA Ceramic graduates from Cardiff School of Art and Design who have formed a cooperative based in Cardiff. Download the catalogue.