Clay Today: A Group with a Vision
byThe Clay Today group was a dynamo and a catalyst for a number of central events and activities pushing and changing the Danish ceramic world during the early 1990s. Clay Today came into existence out…
CLAY Talk – November 16, 2019
This article is based on an address to CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark on the occasion of its 25th anniversary and the retrospective exhibitions of the museums’ founders—Betty Engholm, Nina Hole, N…
Royal College of Art 2019 Show
The future of modern contemporary ceramics today is in the hands of by those who have forged a career internationally. While ceramics has been under pressure in the educational system (especially in t…
In an Ideal World: the 2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM)
by Dr. Damon MoonIf clay is a wonky mirror made of mud, forever fixed by an attentive fire, then the 2019 Sidney Myer Fund Ceramic Award is a hall of mirrors; at once reflecting the makers, the selectors and the judge…
Under the Black and Baltic Deep
The British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson provided the title for an exhibition at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis that presented contemporary ceramics from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The phrase c…
Marta Donaghey – Centre of Success
For anyone interested in modern ceramics then a visit to the Contemporary Ceramics Centre in London is a must. Tucked away in a quiet road opposite the British Museum, it houses a dazzling collection…