Curator Tour of Beneath the Surface -25 June 3pm
The Pot is the Woman! Tour of Beneath the Surface with curator Kirsty Hartsiotis
Thursday 25 June at 3pm
The founder of one of the first studio potteries in Britain, Bernard Leach, once famously said: ‘The pot is the man: his virtues and his vices are shown therein – no disguise is possible.’ But many studio ceramicists have been women!
In the studio ceramics collection at Museum & Art Swindon we have a large number of pieces by female potters, from Leach’s early pupil, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, to leading ceramic artists of today such as Sara Radstone and Tessa Eastman.
This tour by one of the exhibition curators, Kirsty Hartsiotis, of our Beneath the Surface: A Century of Studio Ceramics in Britain exhibition will look in more depth at some of our featured female potters, including Lucie Rie, as well as at other star female potters in the collection from Janet Leach to Alison Britton and beyond. We’ll look at what motivated these women to take up pottery as a career, their techniques and ideas, and the influences they’ve had on other potters.
The tour lasts approximately 30 minutes, with time for questions afterwards.
Tour costs £7.00
