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Rachel Conroy

Curator – Temple Newsam. Areas of specialist interest: Curation Museums British studio pottery Contemporary craft Installation Profile: I have worked as a curator specializing in decorative art since 2004. During my career I have had the opportunity to work on numerous exhibitions, acquisitions and commissions of contemporary ceramics. This included assisting Andrew Renton with exhibitions…

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Ray Auker

Member of Anglian Potters & Norfolk Contemporary Craft Society Areas of specialist interest: Thrown & altered ceramics Extruded sculptural forms Profile: Former Lecturer in Ceramics at Greenwich Community College. Retired in 2008 and set up own teaching and production workshop until 2012, currently producing “one off” pieces that reflect Ray’s broad interest in the processes…

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Richard Baxter

Full time ceramics maker and part-time occasional visiting curator. Areas of specialist interest: Ceramic musical instruments Story of British Studio Pottery Glaze colour Researched Sam Haile in depth Profile: I am 57, and have been a full time studio potter since graduating in 1981 from Loughborough with a BA in 3D Design-Ceramics. I have made…

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Roger Hardwick

Collector Areas of specialist interest: 20th and 21st century studio ceramics. Exhibition and museum display. Profile: I have collected pots for 40 years beginning with Leach standard ware and I now have about 400 MA in Art History from Open University, dissertation subject: Single artist museums, a neglected area of contemporary art history. I presented a paper…

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