20th, 21st & 22nd August 2021 Windsor Racecourse, Berkshire, SL4 5JJ Opening Times: Fri & Sat 10:00am - 5:30pm / Sun 10:00am - 5:00pm www.artinclay.co.uk Follow us Proud organisers of Art In Clay t: 01782 271 200 f: 01782 280 008 Email: [email protected] Artists top left to bottom right: Ian Harris, Wendy Lawrence, Web: www.valentineclays.co.uk Peter Beard, Richard Robinson, Rose Dickinson WELCOME TO ART IN CLAY WINDSOR 2021 Our 27th Art in Clay has not only witnessed We are asking all of our visitors this year to CONTENTS its first online show, in 2020, but has help us by judging the People’s Choice now a brand new location at Windsor Award and voting for your favourite Racecourse. (located by main entrance) all you need Welcome ................................. 3 to do is use the onsite QR code that will Talks & Demonstrations ........... 4 Whilst we were sad to leave Hatfield enable you to cast your online vote during House, we feel thrilled to be part of this Friday & Saturday of the show. We then Clay Creation Zone ................ 6 wonderful venue and are grateful to all would like to invite all visitors to join us of Windsor Racecourses support over the on Saturday evening from 5.45pm (Mick Exhibitors .................................. 8 previous months. Casson Food Zone) for our Exhibitor Award Presentation when we will announce the Event Info & Site Map ............. 36 Visitors will get to witness high-end art to winners of the Potters Choice, Mick Casson practical and functional ceramic pieces & Student Awards. We just ask our visitors one last request that are a perfect addition to your home which is to enter our competition or ideal as a collector’s item. Choose from We are again supporting Adopt-A-Potter by providing feedback on your nearly 200 of the Pottery world’s most so please ensure you visit their stand experience at Art in Clay to ensure knowledgeable and experienced potters, (individual marquee 6) and try your luck we can make next year’s event even well-known artists, and up-and-coming out on their ceramic tombola whilst better (pg 6). ceramicists who will be displaying and supporting a great cause. selling their art during the three day show. All that is left to say is a big thank you For additional information and Covid to you our visitor, it’s your support that Listen and watch a great line up of protocol please view pg 36 but if you need makes all of this possible and helps to ceramic artist doing talks & demonstrations help during the show just speak to one of promote the importance of clay to all. (pg 4) including an opportunity to hear the show staff who will be wearing bright from TV’s famed Great Pottery Throw Down blue t-shirts. Hannah Ault judge Keith Brymer-Jones (Saturday 12pm Show Director & 4.30pm) as he discusses his experiences A huge thank you needs to be given to all Art in Clay within the pottery world. Please note these of our helpers, volunteers, staff, sponsors, (Also a Director of sessions are to be booked in advance. and exhibitors. Without their support, time Valentine Clays Ltd & & enthusiasm Art in Clay certainly would LoveClay Ceramics In our Clay Creation Zone (pg 6) you can not be able to take place. Centre) have a go at throwing your very own pot, creating your own ceramic piece of art or experiencing the wonderful world of raku Transport of clays is kindly donated by Browns Distribution Ltd ORGANISED BY glazing. (t: 01782 525300) All information and listings in the show programme are correct at time of the event. 3 TALKS & DEMONSTRATIONS Richard Godfrey Marquee 3:30pm WENDY LAWRENCE Located at the top of the show ground A journey in clay 25 years as a maker and a teacher. A brief talk about my There is always a great demand for the talks and demos, experience as a maker and a demonstration for hand seating is available, but on a first come first served basis. building techniques and carving. FRIDAY, 20TH AUGUST 2021 4:30pm PHILIP HARDAKER Stoke-on-Trent is still the centre of our ceramic 11:00am MATTHEW BLAKELY universe. Still producing the finest clays, colour, kilns and related Dig your own glaze ceramic components. Anything ceramic related is available Matthew Blakely discusses how glazes can be made from your within a six mile radius in our city. This is why I decided to move environment. A broad and beautiful range of colours and here over 40 years ago and set up my studio in this magical textures can be produced using found clays, plant ash place. The history and heritage of ceramic production still and rocks. litter this city. My work responds to this special past as I’ve been digging shards and ceramic detritus from this land and 12:30pm MARIE PRETT-PEARSON incorporating it within my work. My practice has become a celebration of the past - women and men have forged our Mertle the sitting Mule creativity and formed our ceramic heritage and history. Marie will being demonstrating how to handbuild a sitting mule using thrown parts, pinching and modelling. 2:00pm RICHARD BAXTER SATURDAY, 21ST AUGUST 2021 How and why 11:00am DANIEL BOYLE Richard Baxter will do a ‘show and tell’ on making and decorating tips. Usually there area logical reasons for the Salt and ash glazed stoneware way tools are used to make things happen in a particular A demonstration of his throwing and assembling techniques way. accompanied by a talk explaining 30 years of salt and ash glaze development, explaining his unique salt and ash glazed firing methods. 4 TALKS & DEMONSTRATIONS 12:00pm KEITH BRYMER-JONES SUNDAY, 22ND AUGUST 2021 Connection through creativity “I am delighted to be involved in this years Art in Clay. I shall 11:00am ALEX SHIMWELL be on stage on the Saturday talking about Clay, the Universe, and connectivity through Creativity. I will also be throwing a Throwing architecture, and the development of new work few shapes on the wheel. Really looking forward to The basic architecture of throwing and the development of meeting you”. my new work how their made where ideas came from. 1:30pm FELICITY LLOYD-COOMBES 12:30pm NICK MARSH Mixed Media Animal Sculpture My Journey with Clay Felicity will be demonstrating how she makes her animal Nick Marsh will discuss his journey with clay over the decades sculptures using wire, scrim and paper clay. from a 3D Product Design Course to developing his skills whilst working and travelling abroad enabling his own personal direction. 2:30pm ROGER COCKRAM From the land to the Sea 1:30pm JEMMA GOWLAND Describing how my influences started with the land (countryside in Devon) – and gradually rediscovered my Making the Face of Femininity marine science background – and now centre on how I Our 2019 Student Award winner will take you through her throw, alter, decorate and fire the work – reflecting various journey of the development of her current figurative work, aspects of the sea that I observe. eg spiraling, ovalising, using the properties of ceramic materials to help illustrate painting etc to reflect moments and situations, that I notice. meaning. 3:30pm FREYA BRAMBLE-CARTER 2:30pm NEIL BROWNSWORD Beyond Preservation: Re-evaluating Intangible Cultural Creating a vase, my way Heritage in the UK Ceramic Industry I’m excited to share a view into my world of clay, as I take you Neil Brownsword explores through his artistic practice how the through a demonstration to create a vase. This will include global economics and advances in automation technology have some throwing and assembling, sharing tips along the way. radically transformed the landscape of the UK’s ceramic industry in recent decades. This presentation brings to light some important questions and elucidates Brownsword’s projects which re-evaluate intangible cultural heritage within Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramic sector. 5 CLAY CREATION ZONE COMPETITION one WIN of 10 complimentary tickets for 2 Fire your imagination by creating your own ceramic masterpiece in our clay creation area people to next The Clay Creation Zone is a special area found in the centre of the show ground year’s show! in an individual marquee where both children and adults can have a go designing their own creations using clay provided by Valentine Clays and wheels donated by Love Clay and Gladstone Engineering. Simply fill out our visitor survey THROW A POT HAND MAKE RAKU and you will be entered into On a potter’s wheel with guidance from an & BUILD GLAZING a prize draw to win 2 tickets Your very own creation – with Raku Rob from experienced potter. from age 4 years Whitfield Kilns to next year’s show: £3 a go £2 for a ball of clay £10 per item With the Throw A Pot and Hand Building areas although the items won’t be fired www.artinclay.co.uk/survey once dried you can still take them away to put in pride of place in your home. Handmade items are made using air drying clay which can be decorated with acrylic paints and clear varnish. 6 EXHIBITORS Alex Allday Adrian Bates Decorative ceramic wares with Refined and elegant stoneware intricate surface pattern designs ceramics for home and year-round and textures, inspired by the fusion garden display. of traditional patterns and styles, Lucie Rie such as floral motifs, Victorian tiles 01453759830 and ornate architecture. Derek Emms (Newcomer) 07731921250 www.alexallday.co.uk Pat Armstrong Lindy Barletta Mainly thrown, classically shaped An established potter focusing on raku-fired vessels and bowls using all pleasing ceramics for the home, types of Raku glazes.