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Join us at the Marking the line: Ceramics and Architecture Symposium
On 26th March, join us at Somerset House for an exciting symposium discussing themes of Ceramics and Architecture.
With a selection of prestigious speakers including Eric Parry RA, Suzanne Lovell, Paul Greenhalgh, Jan Tichelaar, Dr Harry Charrington, Tom Freshwater and chaired by Glenn Adamson.
Tickets include lunch and a candlelit reception at Sir John Soane's Museum to see the exhibition.
Book tickets here: http://markingtheline.eventbrite.co.uk
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Contribute to a work of Art
Would you like to contribute to Clare Twomey's new work of Art?
As part of an artwork that Clare Twomey is making for 'Marking the Line: Ceramics and Architecture' opening at Sir John Soane's Museum on 8 March 2013 she is asking 1000 men to tell her about their hopes of personal legacy.
Just fill in the survey here below to take part in this exciting opportunity.
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We are on Facebook and Twitter
Like us on Facebook to get all the latest news at Joanna Bird, details of exhibitions and opportunities to get involved.
Join us at www.facebook.com/JoannaBirdGallery
We are also on Twitter! Follow us @jbpottery
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Blown App
Geoff Mann has created an innovative new interactive app for the IPad to co-inside with the launch of his new work ‘Blown’ (on left). The app provides a unique way to engage with the work.
BLOWN,is a free download and allows users to actually blow onto the screen of the IPad and deform the cup in real time. They are then be able to save the animation and upload it to twitter with an automatic hashtag, creating a critical mass of bespoke blown animations.
You can get the app from the app store on itunes here
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Danlami Aliyu - 1952-2012
Danlami Aliyu passed away on 26th April 2012.
Danlami arrived at the Abuja Pottery aged 14, and tutored by Michael O'Brien, Ladi Kwali and later with Michael Cardew at Wenford Bridge, he became a highly skilled classical thrower and decorator in the Cardew tradition. Aliyu's work was always sensitively felt and lightly thrown. His decoratation was wholly his own, with flowing lines inspired by his African roots. His work is in the V&A Museum and will soon be in the Philidelphia Museum of Art.
You can read his obituary in the Guardian here
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Art Fund COLLECT
Geoff Mann's 'Flight Take-off' won the Art fund COLLECT prize. Curator, Francesca Vanke at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery persuasively argued to a panel of judges why 'Flight Take-off' was an extraordinary piece of craftsmanship deserving of a place in their permanent collection. Geoff's work was selected for his complex relationship with both fine art sculpture and craft traditions.
The Art Fund offerers UK museums a chance to acquire outstanding work of contemporary craft through Art Fund Collect and enhance their contemporary craft collections.
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Mayoral Visit
The Mayor of Richmond upon Thames paid us a special visit to see our 'Changing Paces, Mixed Media, New Faces' exhibition.
She commented on the high quality of work and particularly like the vivid paintings of Deborah Lanyon
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IAC
We are pleased to announce that Joanna Bird has been accepted as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics.
see her page here.
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Chatsworth Commission
Jacob van der Beugel has been commissioned to create a ceramic installation throughout the entire North Sketch Gallery at Chatsworth. The work will be comprised of large ceramic panels depicting DNA portraits. This significant project will be realised over the next couple of years.
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