Famous Women Ceramic Artist

By JDZ-Ceramic

mark knott on thu 5 feb 04

hey I was thinking of some potters sandy Simon, clarie illian (sp) =
betty woodman, sandra johnstone, I think if you think about some great =
artist at least 50% would be women. thank god because in all the places =
I’ve worked the female studio mates have helped me the most. I can think =
of one person janet seaward who I worked with in sun valley id. what a =
pleasure. if not for her I would not have gone on to kansas city. I do =
not know if she still makes pots. how about ann scott plumber, or polly =
ann martin. these women may not be famous, but definitely influential. =
just look around. just my two cents worth. mark knott

Jill Fanshawe Kato,ceramic artist

By Porcelain

Jill Fanshawe Kato 

Email:
jillsetsuokato@onetel.com

Address:
58 Beechfield Road
London
N4 1PE

      

Forthcoming Exhibitions and Events:

Yew Tree Gallery near St Ives, Cornwall - 2007
- Coming Soon -

Aberystwyth Art Centre, solo - 2007
- Coming Soon -

Teaching at Combe Farm Studios, Devon - 2007
- Coming Soon -

Brief Description of Work:

Jills ceramics are inspired by travel and nature and sometimes by ancient buildings returning to nature.  Making processes include coiling, slabbing, sculpting, throwing and altering.  Fired to 1270ºc in gas reduction.  Some raku also made.  Work ranges from pottery for Japanese cuisine to large sculptural commissions.

Commissioned Work Includes:

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Beyond: the path of civilization

By fish

Germany was the first European country to invent china. Although China remained a china-producing monopoly for a thousand years, the technology of producing china spread across Europe in just 50 years. Such rapid spread of technology was possible because some 400 countries competed for it and even dispatched industrial spies. That also explains why Europe’s porcelain industry evolved at a fast pace and ultimately surpassed China, the womb of chinaware, in just 300 years. So when did the focus of modern civilization shift to Western Europe? Join us to learn about the present and future of mankind from “china perspective.”

Cristoph Hunger, the First Industrial Spy

King Augustus of Sachsen was preoccupied with the collection of Oriental porcelain pieces. Although he suffered from a huge amount of debts, he gave his full support to the development of porcelain-producing technologies. After three years of experiments, a group of his scientists succeeded in developing a porcelain technology. But his ambition to monopolize the market was dampened in just 10 years because one of his potters, Hunger, leaked the technology to Austria, Italy, Denmark and Russia. Europeans had to watch China enjoy its suzerain status in chinaware for 1,000 years. But they finally developed their own technology in the eighteenth century and spread it, grabbing the market in just 300 years. How did they succeed in taking the market from China?

Exploring Pompeii, a Roman city, which Created a Neo-Classicism Boom

Pompeii was a prosperous ancient Roman city. After its oblivion for centuries, Pompeii made its majestic reappearance in the eighteenth century. After discovering this buried under ashes city, Europeans made arduous efforts to learn about Rome’s prosperity and traditions. Their social and cultural changes were reflected in their porcelain. While imitating Chinese chinaware, European porcelain companies competed to hit the market using traditional Greek and Roman patterns and designs. And they succeeded eventually. The KBS production team filmed the splendid scenes of the ruins of Pompeii, whose traditions and culture once swept Europe.
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Rivalry: the century of challenge

By fish

While the Medici Family in Italy, the patron of the Renaissance Movement, failed in its china-making experiments, Japan succeeded in making china with the help of the potters who the country kidnapped from the Korean Peninsula during the Hideyoshi Invasion (1592-1598). With the success of Arita porcelain, Japan emerged as a formidable rival of China.
Meanwhile, coffee was imported into Europe from the Islamic World in the 17th century. Despite the Pope’s ban of it as a pagan drink, the popularity of coffee became widespread, bringing an eventual expansion of the market for china.
After losing the booming market for china to China and Japan, Europe finally succeeded in discovering the secret of making china through science and experiments in 1709. Japan and Germany challenged China and put an end to its 1,000-year domination of the market. How did they do it?

Florence, a Renaissance City

Florence is a city of arts. The magnificent art works of great masters create a breathtaking scene in the Piazza della Signoria (Signoria Plaza). The city began to grow when the Medici Family started sponsoring artists in the fifteenth century. The Medici Family sponsored all kinds of artists, including writers, painters and musicians, and had an ambition to replicate Chinese porcelain. But it failed to acquire the technology of producing chinaware despite huge investments. The family built a kiln in the Giardano di Boboli (Boboli Garden) to conduct experiments to produce porcelain. Join us to learn more about the Medici porcelain and the reality that the family had to face.

Hideyoshi Invasion: Crisis of Joseon, Opportunity for Japan

Daitoku-ji Temple in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto has a tea bowl, a national treasure of Japan. This bowl was made by a Joseon potter and was respected in the Samurai tea cult. Unlike today, Japan had to import all porcelain pieces it needed until the seventeenth century. After the Period of Warring States, Hideyoshi Toyotomi unified Japan. During the Hideyoshi Invasion, he gave special orders to his troops to “take Joseon potters captive.” This shows how ardently the Japanese wanted to acquire the porcelain-producing technology. After the war, Joseon and Japan took different ways in terms of porcelain manufacturing. How did Japan learn to make porcelain? What fate awaited Joseon and its potters who were kidnapped to Japan?

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Ceramic Artists & Potters,Mark Titchiner

By AMAY

 Mark Titchiner 

 

Date of Birth: 02.09.1953

Address: The Pottery The Green Chediston Nr Halesworth Suffolk IP19 0BB  

Country: United Kingdom

Email: mark.titchiner@zen.co.uk  

Website: http://www.marktitchinerceramics.com

Brief Description of Work:

Thrown and slab built slipware. Raw glazed and wood fired.  

Selected Previous Exhibitions and Events:

Stockists and Galleries:

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By AMAY

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