Previous Events
Previous Meetings
1st November 2017 – York Art Gallery
Members were invited to explore the Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA)’s current ceramics exhibition before it closed on 5 November, with a tour provided by curator of ceramics Helen Walsh. Participants could also spend time with artist Kate Haywood, who discussed her clay work in exhibition ‘Hoard’ in the Project Gallery.
19th April 2017 – Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
The day centred around discussion for the SSN conference in 2018. We had a talk from ceramist Martin Smith on his Meissen Fountain project at the V&A as well as a tour of the centre by Director Paul Greenhalgh.
10th October 2016 – Harley Gallery, Worksop
Studio visits at the workshops behind the Harley Gallery, a tour of the Portland Collection and discussions around collecting and collections with specific reference to the Rufford Collection. (Image Harley Gallery and Studio)
22nd April 2016 – Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Tour and talk with curator Howard Coutts: ‘The Evolution of the Dinner Plate’. Other talks included Northern Potters Association, Owning a Private Gallery and Emerging Potters magazine.
Rethink Ceramic Art
CoCA SSN Symposium January 2020 by Jane Audas
The latest CoCA SSN Symposium: The Curator’s Challenge – Reinterpreting and Re-imagining Ceramic Collections, was held on Thursday, 30 January 2020 in the Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG). It was billed as a symposia exploring the challenges and opportunities in rethinking approaches to displaying ceramics in museum collections.
Royal College of Art – Work in Progress
A view by Paul Bailey to the show An insight into the creative process can be …
Emerging Potters Jan-March 2020
Welcome to the new magazine for 2020. In this edition we look at a fascinating …
Emerging Potters Oct-Dec 2019
Here's the final edition of Emerging Potters magazine for 2019.