In his latest exhibition Martin Smith further investigates the formal language of the vessel and the way that it can both contain a space and define a place. He analyses the poetic qualities of mathematics and geometry and develops new approaches to

To reach the exhibition Content and Form on the 6th floor at the Victoria and Albert museum one passes through the most eclectic collection of ceramics in the world. It is a tough act to follow that Alison Britton’s retrospective achieves with consid

Decapitated, flayed, pierced, crushed, hung, disemboweled, trampled, and collapsed—such are the torments Laurent Craste visits upon his works. The vases sometimes incorporate the instrument of their torture: crowbar, screwdriver, knife, bat, axe, wre

Tristate of Mind was the inaugural exhibition for In Our Backyard, a year of themed and integrated programming at the Clay Art Center (CAC) in Port Chester, New York. Up between January 30 and March 19, 2016, Tristate showcased seventeen emerging art

My wife and I had gone to Korea for ceramic research. While there, we met with a ceramics professor acquaintance at a university on the west coast of Korea. As we were about to leave we asked the professor where we could catch the bus to Gyeongju. By

The two big shows for established makers in the UK are COLLECT, run by the Crafts Council at the Sattchi Gallery, and Ceramic Art London (CAL) run by the Craft Potters Association, which also runs a second show titled Ceramic Art York. All three show

Standing in the Cube Gallery, in the centre of the Leach Pottery, is a very rare mid - 1920s earthenware sculpture of a horse and rider by Bernard Leach. This sculpture had been roughly cemented onto a generic earthenware ridge tile (FIG 1), and at s

In 2008 I came up with the concept for the Young Masters Art Prize. Having felt for a long time that there was a strong need for the art historical canon to be reflected in the voice of contemporary art and artists, it was this that inspired me to la

The first was a five-day workshop I led at Marian Williams’ studio in Murwillumbah on the far north coast of NSW. The second was firing the ‘Racer’, the anagama kiln at the Mansfield property Morning View at Gulgong. Preparing for the workshop led me

Santa Fe-based artist Sheryl Zacharia has replaced the joy she found in her previous career as a professional singer-songwriter with the equally satisfying joy of art making. “Pattern and form are rhythm, palette is harmony, lines and shapes are lyri

Sitting on my desk are two ceramic pieces that I’ve been looking at off and on for several months. Prior to sitting on the desk the same two pots sat for many earlier months on the mantle in my office, and as I worked I’d regularly stop and look at t

The fact that I am writing this and you are reading it is testimony to the support that we have for the continued success of these two important journals: Ceramics: Art and Perception and Ceramics TECHNICAL. During my nine years as editor, it was my

The fire billowing smoke Fires ten celadon zwine cups There is one cup above others A glow in jade green Tempered through many a searing flame Unblemished as crystal Enduring as rock I see now the crafter’s skill Is touched with the heavenly gift. Yi

We all dream sometimes about doing a totally outrageous thing, something that would take us beyond what we know, out of our comfort zone. In my case it was the dream of seeing what would happen if I massively blew up my way of working in the studio,

Lee Ufan is a man of multiple aspects: he is a painter, a sculptor and a printmaker; he is also a poet and philosopher in his extensive and thoughtful writings about art; he is Korean-born but a longtime resident of Japan who has also lived in Paris.

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar Second stanza,

2 5 April 2017 will be exactly 2 years since my companion, my mentor, my muse as well as my husband of 47 years, Ted DeMaine, passed away. For a long time I floundered as Ted was my greatest supporter, my rock. I am confident now that I am back into

The caves at Lascaux or Chauvet. The stencils of horses, mammoths, lions, bears, bison, aurochs. The sensitivity of perception they reveal. What if, rather than being painted on the surface, these apparitions came through the rock to be seen? The roc

From the start – birth, society, with its culturally stereotypical views, will assign a gender, in this case male. We can tell he’s male because he’s dressed in blue and straight, right? So he must be. We cannot see or feel the inner presence, so his

It’s a lot like organising an anagama firing. You need plenty of work, you get set to load plenty of ware, you need plenty of wood, and you get set to do plenty of splitting. It can do your head in. No doubt it would without Lloyd. You need allies li

This tomb was discovered in 1973 in the former German Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) at a prehistoric archaeological site outside the town of Zwenkau near Leipzig. Since its discovery, the crypt has remained a trove of paradox and cont

Designed by Kunter Şekercioğlu and produced in his own workshop called Kilit Taşı (Keystone), Dervish is a Turkish coffee cup and its plate, made of porcelain (see image on previous page). This design was awarded the Design Turkey – Superior Design A

As a potter, I find myself conscious of legacy: having an understanding of what has gone before us is not only fascinating but can inform our own practice. In my early potting days I developed a particular fondness for the type of glaze known as Cela

While preparing for my recent solo exhibition, Pedigree (September 2015), I decided it was time for a studio reboot. My life has slowly evolved from college student to professor, artist and other and as a result, my studio time has evolved from open

One of the most important rehabilitation centres in Turkey, the Bodrum Health Foundation, preferences ceramics in its curriculum. The workshop was established with the sponsorship of Erkan Dülgerolu (1945 – 2014) who is the owner of Ferer Foreign Co.

In the aftermath of the First World War pessimism hung over Meissen with almost palpable heaviness. Yet in the pockets of the city’s inhabitants, clinking as they walked the depressed streets, unusual evidence of Germany’s persistent spirit of innova

Hand rolled coils are the preference of Cambridge potter Stephen Murfitt who makes ceramic vessels that contain and reveal space through an infinite range of forms. The slow and contemplative process of coiling allows for intuitive developments to be

Combining the centuries old technique of forming objects from clay and the very recent process of depositing metal on a vitreous surface, John Conrad has developed a first ever application that results in an unworldly, rich brilliant rainbow of color