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It won the prestigious British Ceramics Biennial AWARD in 2021. Senior Curator of Ceramics and Glass at the V&A Alun Graves described the work as “outstanding in concept, design and execution … it stands as a work of exceptional humanity, as well as one of remarkable aesthetic presence.” [7]
This year's biennial, which will run Oct. 5 to Jan. 4, 2026, gathers a crop of artists who were born as far away as Baghdad (Ali Eyal) and Haiti (Widline Cadet). The oldest is 85 (Pat O’Neill ...
Terry William Moores (1949–2014) was an English ceramic artist, born in Ashton Under Lyne, a suburb of Manchester and brought up in Denton (now part of Tameside). He went on to develop a career in ceramic sculpture, examples of which are found in the collections of the University of East Anglia [1] and the British Museum.
British Ceramic Tile (BCT) is the largest manufacturer of ceramic and glass tiles in the UK, based in Devon. The company has been in operation at the Heathfield site, Newton Abbot since the 1850s. In September 2009, a major expansion of the BCT factory was completed, [ 1 ] making it the largest and most efficient tile-making plant on one site ...
Nearly 2,000 Chinese ceramics worth £1bn are to be donated to the institution by a charitable foundation. British Museum given its most valuable gift ever Skip to main content
He taught ceramics at the Camden Arts Centre for more than two decades, [2] and had many exhibitions in London—including at the Barbican Centre, the Whitechapel Gallery (as part of Africa '95), [6] the Mall Galleries, and the Iraqi Cultural Centre [1] —and elsewhere in the UK, as well as in the US and Sweden. [5]
Elizabeth Fritsch CBE (born 1940) is a British studio potter and ceramic artist born into a Welsh family in Whitchurch on the Shropshire border. [1] Her innovative hand built and painted pots are often influenced by ideas from music, painting, literature, landscape and architecture.
David Battie married Sarah Francis, a glass expert from Sotheby's, in 1972.The couple have two daughters. [4]In 2012 Battie broke his leg in a fall. While in hospital he contracted an antibiotic-resistant infection and ultimately remained in hospital for six months, undergoing eight operations, including four skin grafts.