Tate Modern & Mudlarking

  To complete my previous blog, I'd like to add pots by clay artists who are permanent members of Contemporary Applied Arts. This gallery shows the best of British Fine Crafts. This was my final day in England and I was determined to make the most of it, in spite of having picked up one of those beastly colds that one does on a trip…

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Contemporary Applied Arts

On my last full day in England I took myself off to London's South Bank to visit Tate Modern, but first I wanted to find Contemporary Applied Arts again. It took me about fifteen dawdling minutes from Waterloo to find the gallery on Southwark street and it's only about a block south of Tate Modern and the Thames. This is the link to the CAA…

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Ceramics seen in London, Sept 2012

I've prepared another Picasa album. This time it includes all the splendid ceramics I photographed when I was on a brief trip to England last September. Earlier I posted work seen in Cambridge but I never got around to assembling these for you pottery fanatics to see. They certainly make a big contrast to the ancient Mexican work I posted recently. I see the British…

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domesticMATTERS

When I was in London I visited Contemporary Applied Arts on Percy Street to see their show domesticMATTERS, which was part of the London Design Festival. Here are some ceramic pieces I enjoyed. Run your cursor across the photo to see the caption. If you can identify the artists for the one or two that I didn't please do so.   I then walked down…

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Victoria & Albert Museum

For several years the huge ceramics collection at London's Victoria & Albert Museum was not available to the public. I remember a huge, block-long series of rooms each featuring Korean, Italian, English collections - any ceramic tradition you can imagine. At last these galleries are reopened and the display has been entirely reorganized. The museum is free and not-to-be-missed! A month ago I was happy…

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