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WRITING
SOME FEATURE ARTICLES & ESSAYS

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  • "Four funerals and a book: Writing The Teabowl: East and West", Studio Potter, 27 April 2020.

  • "The Teabowl: East and West", Ceramics Ireland, Issue 41, 2018.

  • "The Iconic Teabowl: A New Context’, catalogue essay, ‘Chawan: International Teabowl Exhibition’, Stratford Gallery, 2018.

  • "Felicity Aylieff: Monumental Works", Ceramics: Art & Perception 103, 2016.

  • "Touch and the Sensorial Body", catalogue essay, The Sensorial Object, Cardiff, 2015.

  • Response to "Temporality, Critique and the Vessel Tradition", The Journal of Modern Craft, 6.3, 15 January 2014.

  • “Shima Kara Shima E”, catalogue essay, The Leach Pottery, 2014.

  • “Robert Cooper and Vanguard Court”, La Ceramica, No. 19, Dec 2013.

  • “Life Unfolding: Sarah Walton”, Ceramic Review, Jul/Aug 2012.

  • “From Cynics to Celebrants: the Figure in Contemporary Ceramics”, Ceramic Review, Mar/Apr 2012.

  • “Art and Nature: Jonathan Keep”s Syringe Forms”, Ceramic Review, Jun/Jul 2010.

  • “Regina Heinz: Horizontal to Vertical”, Neue Keramik (New Ceramics), Mar/Apr 2010.

  • “First you heat the water…” an article on Japanese Tea Ceremony, Artesian, Issue Two, 2009.

  • “Breaking the Taboo: Bonnie Kemske on Touch”, Ceramic Review, Sep/Oct 2009.

  • “Tilted & Skewed: Robert Dawson”, Ceramic Review, Mar/Apr 2009.

  • “Market Forces: Jonathan Keep Tableware”, Ceramic Review, Jul/Aug 2008.

  • “The Beauty of Imperfection: Teabowls”, Ceramic Review, May/Jun 2007.

  • “On Being a Visiting Artist”, Ceramics Monthly, Ohio USA, May 2001.

SOME EXHIBITION & BOOK REVIEWS

  • “Many a Slip” (exhibition), Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 104, 2016.

  • “Carina Ciscato” (exhibition), Ceramics: Art & Perception, in press.

  • “Japanese Ceramics” (exhibition), Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 102, 2015.

  • “Unbounded: Kerry Jameson” (exhibition), Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 98, 2014.

  • “Elemental Conversations: Margaret O’Rorke and Beverley Bell-Hughes” (exhibition), Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 97, 2014.

  • “Emmanuel Cooper” (exhibition), Crafts, exhibition review, 2014.

  • “Silence for the ceramic cylinders: Edmund de Waal” (exhibition), The Art Newspaper, 19 Dec 2013 

  • “Bricks in the Rain” (exhibition), Ceramic Review, Jan/Feb 2013.

  • The Case for Working with Your Hands or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good (book), Ceramic Review, Jul/Aug 2011.

  • The Lost City of Stoke-on-Trent (book), Ceramic Review, Jan/Feb 2011.

  • “Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds” (exhibition), Ceramic Review, Jan/Feb 2011.

  • Taizo Kuroda (book), Ceramic Review, Sep/Oct 2010.

  • Low-firing and Burnishing (book), Ceramic Review, Mar/Apr 2010.

  • “The Power of Dogu: Ceramic Figures from Ancient Japan” (exhibition), Ceramic Review, Jan/Feb 2010.

  • “Michael Wisner” (exhibition), Ceramic Review, Nov/Dec 2009.

  • Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave (book), Ceramic Review, Jul/Aug 2009.

  • “The Porcelain Project” (performance), Ceramic Review, Jul/Aug 2009.

  • “Contemporary French Ceramics: Flow Gallery” (exhibition), Ceramic Review, Jul/Aug 2009.

  • The Soulwork of Clay: A Hands-on Approach to Spirituality (book), Ceramic Review, May/Jun 2009.

  • “Rebecca Harvey: An Exhibition of Porcelain and Glass” (exhibition), Ceramic Review, Jan/Feb 2009.

  • Ceramics for Beginners: Hand Building (book), Ceramic Review, Mar/Apr 2009.

  • “Jerwood Contemporary Makers” (exhibition), Ceramic Review, Sep/Oct 2008.

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