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Collaborations between artists and the ceramics industry
Organised by University of Westminster research fellow Clare Twomey to coincide with London Design Week, September’s one-day symposium Collaboration: Artist and Industry held at The Building Centre, London offered international and UK perspectives on artists in residence within the ceramics industry.
The day was an opportunity to learn more about this developing area of practice, as well as inviting conversation and debate between artists, industrialists, curators and critics into the success and long term aims of such activities. Discussion was focused by speakers Beth Lipman, director of Kohler Manufacturing; USA (John Kohler Arts Centre), who have hosted an artist in residence for twenty-five years; Tiziana Casapietra, co-founder of the Albisola art biennial, which invites international artists to work with the traditional skills of local fabrics and studios; Angela Hull, senior designer responsible for development of Wedgwood? Jasper Ware; Peter Allen, Royal Crown Derby production development manager, and Roy Hodgkinson from the Ceramics Industry Forum and a managing director at Johnson Tiles. They were joined by ceramicists Julian Stair, who used facilities at Weinerberger's Sedgley Brick Factory to make monumental ceramic work, Chris Keenan, designer of a dinner ware range SORA for Habitat and Barnaby Barford, collaborator on the recently completed Damaged Goods: an animated love story played out by ceramic figurines. The event raised issues concerning the true meaning...
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