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...He took it up at school and was taught in St Ives by Bernard Leach, co-founder of Leach Pottery, before setting up a studio in Durweston in Dorset....
...He is showing studio pottery made by the 20th-century British potters Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach and Japanese potter Shoji Hamada along with magisterial vessels by Peter Voulkos, the postwar American potter...
...John Leach, chairman of the AA, said last week that the deal offered “certain cash value to the AA’s shareholders as well as a significant equity injection to reduce indebtedness”....
...Albert Bridge, the largest shareholder in the AA with a 17 per cent stake, was not immediately available for comment....
...In 1851, on the eve of Queen Victoria’s gift of the Royal Parks, Prince Albert wowed the world with the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park....
...Stuck, he returned to Japan in 1991 to research a book demystifying Leach. “It’s anxiety of influence – you choose which father to kill, and in my case it was Leach....
...For Greg Davies, senior curator in the Asian department of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, it has ever been thus. “How far back do you want to go?” he asks....
...And I remembered this in 2006, when I was given the greatest commission of my life so far – to make something for the Ceramics Galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)....
...It’s one step away from saying they’re all criminals, and the next step is to say they leach away our nation’s lifeblood.”...
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