This international ceramics festival will bring together 100 artists in a programme of exhibitions, installations, new commissions and hands-on activities taking place across Stoke-on-Trent, the undisputed home of British ceramics. Exhibition highlights at Spode include ‘Place and Practice’ a series of site-specific installations, created by Stoke-on-Trent born artist Neil Brownsword in collaboration with Korean artists Juree Kim and Oh Hyangjong. Other highlights include ‘Heart:Beat’ at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and Bethesda Chapel, a cross-disciplinary installation created following an exchange project with the UK and India that responds to themes of material, place and tradition; an exhibition celebrating the anniversaries of Armitage Shanks and Duchamp’s controversial Fountain 17, at Gladstone Pottery Museum; and Fount, an installation at AirSpace Gallery exploring the role of the ubiquitous public fountain, which Stoke-on-Trent manufactured and exported globally. Find out more about the British Ceramics Biennial from their website.
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Two of Cups (2016), Pauliina Pöllänen. © Sylvain Deleu
Wildness (detail; 2016), Katie Spragg. Photo: Sylvain Deleu
Ian McIntyre removing a Brown Betty from a mould. Photo: Glen Stoker
Aerial shot of ‘Heart:Beat’, 2017. Photo: Johnny Magee
Statement Vessels (2017), Hannah Tounsend. Courtesy of the artist
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