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Books & Exhibitions

A list of the Books and Exhibitions over the course of the BA

Books

Paul Greenhalagh - Ceramic Art and Civilisation                                     Inter-library loan for Dissertation
Paul Scott & Terry Bennett - Hot off the Press                                         University Library for dissertation
Stephen Dixon - The Sleep of Reason                                                     University Library for dissertation
Breaking the Mould new approach to ceramics                                        University Library for dissertation
Claire Ireland - Surface Decoration for CERAMICS                                 Personal for dissertation 
Grayson Perry - The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman                            University Library for dissertation
Paul Scott - Ceramics and Print second and third editions                       Personal for dissertation 
Contemporary Ceramics                                                                           University Library for dissertation
Disobedient Objects                                                                                  University Library for dissertation
Breaking the Mould British Art of the 1980's and 1990's.                          University Library for dissertation     
Patricia F. Ferguson - Pots, Prints and Politics                                         Personal for dissertation  
Alison Briton - Seeing Things                                                                    University Library for dissertation 
Angela Phillips & Jill Rakusen - Our Bodies Our Selves                           Lent JB  
Thinking is Making - Objects in a Space                                                   Personal 
Kevin Petrie - Ceramic transfer printing                                                    Personal for dissertation 
Grayson Perry - Smash Hits                                                                     Personal for dissertation
Jacky Klein - Grayson Perry                                                                     University Library for dissertation 
Graham Collier - Form, Space and Vision                                                University Library for dissertation 
Nina Power - One Dimensional Woman                                                   Tutorial recommendation
Nina Power - What Do Men Want?                                                           Further reading
Rebecca Solnit - Men Explain Things to Me                                             Further reading
Rebecca Solnit - The Mother of All Questions                                          Further reading
bell hooks - Teaching to Transgress                                                         Philosophies & Theories Module Reading
Elaine Scarry - The Body in Pain                                                              Tutorial recommendation
Nancy Fraser - Justice Interruptus                                                            Further reading
Henri Lefebvre - The Production of Space                                                Reading List
Gillian Rose - Love’s Work, Paradiso                                                        Tutorial recommendation
Gillian Rose - Visual Methodologies                                                          Personal
Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide to Getting Lost                                         Reading List
Russell Tovey + Robert Diament, - talk ART                                             Personal
Phaidon's Vitamin C Clay + Ceramics                                                       Personal
Bernard Leach - Hamada Potter                                                                Personal 
Bernard Leach - A Potter's Book                                                               Jo Taylor's recommendation (Thrive Mentor)
Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi - Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?        Tate St Ives
Ceramic Review (Monthly subscription)                                                    Jo Taylor's recommendation (Thrive Mentor)
Print Matters (Monthly subscription)                                                          Tutorial recommendation​​

Influential Exhibitions ​​

  • Ceramic Art London 2025

  • Theaster Gates - 1965: Malcolm in the Winter: A Translation Exercise, White Cube, London

  • Leach Pottery, Matthew Foster, Mark Griffiths, St Ives, Cornwall 

  • Spode Works Museum, Stoke on Trent

  • Emma Bridgwater, Stoke on Trent

  • Gladstone Pottery, Stoke on Trent

  • Pitt River Museum, Oxford

  • Yoko Ono, Tate Modern, London

  • Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

  • Ceramic Art London, Olympia, London

  • Women in Revolt, Tate Britain, London

  • Bristol Print Fair, Bristol

  • When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery, London

  • Collect - Somerset House, London

  • Hastings Contemporary, Sussex

  • Strange Clay, Haywood London 

  • Frameless, London

  • Van Gogh Immersive Experience, London

  • National Portrait Gallery, London

  • Summer Exhibition, RA, London 

  • The Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall

  • The New Craftsman, St Ives Cornwall

  • Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

  • Ai Wei Wei, The Design Museum, London 

  • Woolwich Print Fair, London 2022, 2023

  • Open Studios Hampshire and West Berkshire

  • School of Art, Reading Degree Show 

  • Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Rooms, Tate Modern, London​​​​​

Influential Artists​​

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Clay/Sculpture             

Sir Grayson Perry                                  Hayward Gallery, London                                        

Decal, society, cultural & political messaging

Paul Scott                                             

Stoke on Trent                                                         

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Research for dissertation 

 

Emma Bridgewater                                Emma Bridgewater Factory, Stoke on Trent           Modern application of decals to functional ware 

Judy Chicago                                         The Dinner Party - Brooklyn Museum US               Celebrates 39 women with a unique place setting  

Katrin Moye                                            A Menopause in Majolica, Collect London              Ceramics and Menopause themes

Tara Donavon                                        Exhibition - When Forms Come Alive, Lond.           Scale, repetitive forms, precision

Olaf Brzeski                                           Hayward London - When Forms Come Aliv             Destruction, explosive, the chard remains

Matthias Merkel Hess, US                     Online Research                                                      Repetition of forms, close observation

Steven Edwards                                    Collect 24, Somerset House, London                      Making and ruining work to create art   

Zoe Preece                                            Collect 24, Somerset House, London                      Simply magical illusion with clay & glaze           

Lindsey Mendicks, UK                           Strange Clay Exhibition & Online Research            Theatrical installation, freedom to play

Liu Jianhua, China                                 Strange Clay Exhibition & Online Research            White porcelain, repetition, staging

Ai Wei Wei, China                                  Exhibition, London                                                   Scale, repetition, curation  

Rachel Kneebone, UK                           Strange Clay Exhibition, White Cube, Online          Large scale sculptures in porcelain

Rebecca Warren UK                              talk ART                                                                   Large scale sculptures with unfired clay

Anthony Gormley, UK                            Tate Exhibition & Online Research                          Large-scale sculptures of abstracted figures

Jo Taylor                                                "Thrive" Mentor & Author “Hand Built Ceramics      Collect 24, techniques, advice

 

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Claude Flight, UK                                    Author

Cyril Power, UK                                       Online Research

Sybil Andrews, UK                                  Online Research

Lill Tschudi, Switzerland                          Online Research

Anita Klein, Australia                               Author and Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London​​​​

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Photography

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Hannah Wilkes                                        Series of photographs taken of herself while battling with cancer - Intra-Venus 1992-1993​

Jo Spence                                               Series of photographs of her experience of dying 1992​​​

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Painting

                           

David Hockney, UK                                  Online research                                                          composition inspiration for A1 

Tracey Emin, UK                                      Online research - Article in the Guardian                   May 2023,

Frida Kahlo                                               The Broken Column (1944)                                        fear, pain, isolation, tears

Skills - Semester 1 & 2 (2024 & 2025)

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