Curator Talk : 100 years of Winchcombe Pottery
Event Location: Council Chambers, Museum & Art Swindon
Winchcombe Pottery, has shaped studio ceramics through Michael Cardew’s pioneering work, its production ware, and under Ray Finch, its training legacy. This talk will explore Winchcombe’s story from the early kiln disasters to wonderful handmade pots for every day. Along the way it will explore its international links, and its customers, from Gordon Russell to Cranks restaurants.
Helen Brown is an independent curator having worked for many years at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. She curated the first retrospective exhibition of Winchcombe Pottery at Cheltenham in 1998 which travelled to Stoke-on-Trent and Penzance. More recently she curated Radical Clay at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, and at Court Barn: 'Michael Cardew: The Winchcombe Years' in 2016, and with Mary Greensted, 'Pioneers, 101 Years of the Leach Pottery' in 2021 and this year ‘Mastering the Craft: Winchcombe Pottery at 100.’
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Tickets cost £9.00
The talk will last 45-60 minutes with time for questions with the curator afterwards.
Images:
Large jar, Michael Cardew, about 1930
Winchcombe Pottery standard ware, 1960 – 80
Mike Adlem Collection
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