I am stressed about a lot of things. My degree work isn’t really one of them. All the pictures have been taken by Lucy Kerrane again. That woman is like some sort of multi-talented wizard. The first picture is from […]
A campaign against proposals to close the ceramics department at City and Islington College has gained the support of Turner Prize-winning potter Grayson Perry.
The bleak and startling beauty of the Shetland Isles. We look forward to returning in the summer…
Sound recording and photography at Meal Beach
Please listen on a good pair of headphones…
The gallery space at Shetland Museum. Our plan is to dim the lighting; install ceramic tiled panels on the walls (with spotlights to highlight them) alongside a multi-speaker sound installation, recorded in the surrounding areas. An audio-visual evocation of landscape […]
This is where we will be spending August 2015
A collaborative project between sound artist Joseph Young and ceramist J Kay Aplin to create a body of work that responds to the landscape of the Shetland Isles, inspired by the practice of John Cage.
Following the announcement that parts of the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation are to remain on display until the end of the month before setting off on a tour of the UK, artist Paul Cummins is to plant the final poppy at the Tower of London on 11 November 2014 to mark Armistice Day.
During my drive down to Cardiff to meet ceramic artist Claire Curneen at her studio I was thinking back over her work since I first met her in the 1990s when she had not long left her native Ireland. We […]
Ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper have installed a sea of red poppies in the dry moat surrounding the Tower of London to mark the centenary anniversary of the first world war. Pippa Koszerek takes a closer look.
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Heidi Parsons, Snapshot Plate, Blossom Edition (detail), 2010.
‘The Ceramic City – Design for Public Space’ conference, held on 9 and 10 October 2009 at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and organised by Art&Architecture Journal Conferences in partnership with the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), coincided with the BCB Festival held throughout the city of Stoke-on-Trent from 3 October – 13 December 2009.
CJ O’Neill was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1978 and studied BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating in 2000 after specialising in ceramics in her third year. The ‘Next Move’ residency at MMU, which ran […]
Ikuko Iwamoto’s ceramic works are influenced by the microscopic world. She aims to bring its organic chaos, intensity, intricacy and fragility to the things we use every day without losing their function.
University of Westminster’s BA in ceramics is set to close in 2013, with no further recruitment.
The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), launched on 1 December 2008 and directed by A FINE LINE partners Barney Hare Duke and Jeremy Theophilus, is a major initiative to create a programme of events and activities and a showcase Biennial event in Stoke-on-Trent to take place in October/November of 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Organised by University of Westminster research fellow Clare Twomey to coincide with London Design Week, September’s one-day symposium Collaboration: Artist and Industry held at The Building Centre, London offered international and UK perspectives on artists in residence within the ceramics industry.
Penny Jones profiles Clare Twomey, who makes large-scale ceramic installations for galleries and museums often in collaboration with the UK ceramics industry.
