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Ceramic Review Editors: Eileen Lewenstein Emmonuel Cooper 5 Belsiz:e Lane London NW3 SAD November December 1973 Number 24 Contents Michael Casson Tony Birks Reduced Glazes in Electric Kilns Part I Peter Smith Raku Kiln Plans 4 Walter Keeler Siddig El Nigoumi Paul Barron 6 The Potters of Thrapsano Ceramics and Education Maria Voyatzoglou Part VI, Pottery at the Exhibition Reviews Albany Letters Thom Borthwick 8 Classified Advertisements Book Reviews 9 Forthcoming Exhibitions Cover Mick Casson throwing in his studio October 1973 The Craftsman in Business and Organisation in College Workshops will be continued in the next issue. Correction Photographic captions were incorrect in Ceramic Review 10 12 13 17 21 22 22 No. 23 . On page 6 the work of Hilary Filkin and Kathryn Gregory was reversed. The mugs were designed by Hilary and the- earthenware form is the work of Kathryn. On page 7 photographs credited to West Sussex School of Art, were in fact supplied by West Surrey School of Art. The British Abroad The money spent by the C.A.C. on promoting the crafts is now £332,000 a year. Many of the major plans inaugurated are now well under way. Grant schemes are in the hands of committees made up of experienced craftsmen; the old Craft Council and Craft Centre have now amalgamated and the first Annual General Meeting of the British Craft Centre at Earlham Street was held in September. Waterloo Place has been opened as a gallery showing specially mounted and selected exhibitions . Also, work from the permanent loan collection of the C.A.C. will be shown informally from time to time. Special overseas exhibitions have been mounted and sent abroad . One area neglected by the C.A.C. is assisting and ensuring representation of British craftsmen in foreign international exhibitions . Traditionally British potters have not exhibited abroad. Many potters have felt a lack of sympathy with the work of overseas ceramic artists. However, studio potters in Britain now work within a much wider spectrum and it is time for the 'little Englander' policy to be relegated, by the C. A. C., to history. From this year's International Exhibitions. Below left: Gdansk, Poland-Tony Franks GB Stoneware pots. Below centre: Faenza- Vasilii Tsygankov USSR-"Rose'~ Below right: Japan-Gienys Barton GB, Bone china cup and saucer. Regular and occasional international exhibitions of ceramics are on the increase. Faenza is now an annual event, Vallauris is biennial, and the International Academy of Ceramics occasional. As Audrey Blackman points out in her letter on page 21 there was a second international exhibition in Gdansk, Poland this year. In Japan Kimpei Nakamura organized an eclectic show of 'cups' in Tokyo. Study of the catalogues of the International Exhibitions in Calgary and Faenza show a very thin British entry indeed, compared to the entries from other countries. Many potters would have liked to submit work, but were unable to do so because of the time and expense involved. There is a strong case for the C.A.C. to set up an administrative service that would enable potters to submit to such exhibitions. Subsidies need not be necessary. The service, perhaps arranged as a package deal with a shipping firm, would deal with the specific problems of transporting ceramics : bulk shipments would cut down the cost for the potter. This service is apart from any official British Entry which, with its suggestion of a select few, has too many undertones of a clique to satisfy the rejected mass. The service would be for those potters who wished to send their work abroad whether they had received special invitations or whether they were sending work which would be selected on arrival. Ceramic Review, 5 Belsize Lane, London NW3 SAD . MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS Annual subscription (six issues) £2.00 Overseas rate £2.50 surface mail, by International Money Order only. Air mail rates on application. Single copy 30p. By post 35p. Overseas 42p. Opinions expressed are tlwse of contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Craftsmen Potters Association. ©Ceramic Review 1973 No articles may be reproduced without the Editors' permission. Above: Ceramics International 73, Calgary- Tamas Ortutay, Hungary, Object.

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Ceramic Review

Editors: Eileen Lewenstein Emmonuel Cooper 5 Belsiz:e Lane London NW3 SAD

November December 1973 Number 24

Contents Michael Casson

Tony Birks

Reduced Glazes in

Electric Kilns Part I

Peter Smith

Raku Kiln Plans

4 Walter Keeler

Siddig El Nigoumi

Paul Barron

6 The Potters of Thrapsano

Ceramics and Education Maria Voyatzoglou Part VI, Pottery at the Exhibition Reviews Albany Letters Thom Borthwick 8 Classified Advertisements Book Reviews 9 Forthcoming Exhibitions Cover Mick Casson throwing in his studio October 1973 The Craftsman in Business and Organisation in College Workshops will be continued in the next issue. Correction Photographic captions were incorrect in Ceramic Review

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13 17 21 22 22

No. 23 . On page 6 the work of Hilary Filkin and Kathryn Gregory was reversed. The mugs were designed by Hilary and the- earthenware form is the work of Kathryn. On page 7 photographs credited to West Sussex School of Art, were in fact supplied by West Surrey School of Art.

The British Abroad The money spent by the C.A.C. on promoting the crafts is now £332,000 a year. Many of the major plans inaugurated are now well under way. Grant schemes are in the hands of committees made up of experienced craftsmen; the old Craft Council and Craft Centre have now amalgamated and the first Annual General Meeting of the British Craft Centre at Earlham Street was held in September. Waterloo Place has been opened as a gallery showing specially mounted and selected exhibitions . Also, work from the permanent loan collection of the C.A.C. will be shown informally from time to time. Special overseas exhibitions have been mounted and sent abroad .

One area neglected by the C.A.C. is assisting and ensuring representation of British craftsmen in foreign international exhibitions . Traditionally British potters have not exhibited abroad. Many potters have felt a lack of sympathy with the work of overseas ceramic artists. However, studio potters in Britain now work within a much wider spectrum and it is time for the 'little Englander' policy to be relegated, by the C. A. C., to history. From this year's International Exhibitions. Below left: Gdansk, Poland-Tony Franks GB Stoneware pots. Below centre: Faenza- Vasilii Tsygankov USSR-"Rose'~ Below right: Japan-Gienys Barton GB, Bone china cup and saucer.

Regular and occasional international exhibitions of ceramics are on the increase. Faenza is now an annual event, Vallauris is biennial, and the International Academy of Ceramics occasional. As Audrey Blackman points out in her letter on page 21 there was a second international exhibition in Gdansk, Poland this year. In Japan Kimpei Nakamura organized an eclectic show of 'cups' in Tokyo.

Study of the catalogues of the International Exhibitions in Calgary and Faenza show a very thin British entry indeed, compared to the entries from other countries. Many potters would have liked to submit work, but were unable to do so because of the time and expense involved.

There is a strong case for the C.A.C. to set up an administrative service that would enable potters to submit to such exhibitions. Subsidies need not be necessary. The service, perhaps arranged as a package deal with a shipping firm, would deal with the specific problems of transporting ceramics : bulk shipments would cut down the cost for the potter.

This service is apart from any official British Entry which, with its suggestion of a select few, has too many undertones of a clique to satisfy the rejected mass. The service would be for those potters who wished to send their work abroad whether they had received special invitations or whether they were sending work which would be selected on arrival.

Ceramic Review, 5 Belsize Lane, London NW3 SAD . MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS Annual subscription (six issues) £2.00 Overseas rate £2.50 surface mail, by International Money Order only. Air mail rates on application. Single copy 30p. By post 35p. Overseas 42p.

Opinions expressed are tlwse of contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Craftsmen Potters Association. ©Ceramic Review 1973 No articles may be reproduced without the Editors' permission.

Above: Ceramics International 73, Calgary- Tamas Ortutay, Hungary, Object.

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