Phil Rogers | Earthly Matters | Article
It was Mike Goldmark who introduced me to the work of Phil Rogers, at an exhibition at the gallery about fifteen years ago. As soon
It was Mike Goldmark who introduced me to the work of Phil Rogers, at an exhibition at the gallery about fifteen years ago. As soon
But what he had achieved, agreed Gil Darby, late curator of ceramics at the Victoria & Albert Museum, matched the finest Sung Dynasty pottery held
What is a potter’s most valued resource? Is it her supplies, her equipment? The pounds she pays for a studio space? I wager most potters
Those of you who are familiar with my book ‘An Autobiography of Sorts’ will know that the first essay I ever wrote was called ‘In
His work offers solace, not as something into which we may withdraw or retreat, but as a pottery that sustains through its form, through its
A recent article described Ryotaro Kato as the ‘son of the seventh master of Kobe Kiln’. ‘Son of the seventh master’ – not the ‘eighth
Takeshi Yasuda has established a remarkable and enduring reputation across the world as a potter and teacher of great imagination and integrity. Fifty years of
‘I knew that one day I would have a wood-fired kiln’. Phil Rogers discusses the joy and the agony of firing studio pots with a wood-fired kiln.
I don’t usually invent shapes or techniques: I like to understand those that people have made in generations before me. I think that’s what keeps
We spoke to slipware potter Clive Bowen about his love of clay… Looking around the studio, we’re surrounded by jugs and mugs, plates, dishes, platters,
Art enables us to find ourselves and to lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton When E.M. Forster wrote the prescient words ‘only connect’
There has been a wonderful creative symmetry fulfilled during the creation of these painted pots. The initial impetus for the project came from a series
I was sufficiently moved to make the radical change from the worthy study of medicine to the making of pots. I’ve always had an interest
At the very end of the main street in Mashiko there is a three-way junction. To the right is the road to Kasama, a neighbouring
Art critic David Whiting discusses the work of major Korean potter Lee Kang-hyo, in particular his giant onggi jars and his punch’ong moon jars.
Even the most ascetic, least material of monks has need of three things: robes, in which to clothe himself; a temple, in which to shelter himself; and a bowl, with which to feed himself.
Almost from the very beginning of my professional life as a potter I have been drawn toward Korean ceramics. Buncheong is a contemporary term that describes
The reception of the November 2016 ceramics exhibition of work by Anne Mette Hjortshøj was overwhelming. Originally consisting of an astounding 380 pots – a
Jim Malone was born in Sheffield in 1946. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family back to her native Wales. Malone
In his seminal 1975 publication The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Warhol wrote of Coca-Cola as an icon of consumer egalitarianism: ‘What’s great about this country
Ken Matsuzaki does not allow his noborigama kiln to rise beyond 1250˚c. Five or ten degrees in excess of this limit, for even a few
