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...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...“We couldn’t do that for ‘Omai’,” says Lochhead, referring to Joshua Reynolds’ 1776 portrait of the first Polynesian man to visit Britain....
...T V Narendran, Tata Steel’s chief executive, told the Financial Times the status quo was “not sustainable”....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Players continue to flock to GTA V a decade after it was first released, thanks to a steady stream of new content and add-ons from its developer, Rockstar....
...Reynolds ended the membership structure, and Walker introduced new genres: sci-fi, fantasy, romance and YA....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Burleigh, another heritage potter, is not producing coronation ware at all. But Emma Bridgewater is confident. Royal occasions are a big deal for its customers....
...(Typically for Waddesdon, the Dairy is hardly a shed with a milk pail but a hefty three-wing brick mansion on the estate’s outskirts; a Reynolds hangs in our meeting room.)...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Ryan Reynolds cashed out of Aviation American Gin after two years, to the tune of a reported $610mn. (Nice work, Deadpool.)...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Richard Batterham: Studio Potter, which was published alongside a new exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...There are also items such as a breastplate from 1565 and a teapot by potter James Hadley from 1881, artworks by Rodin, Degas and Joshua Reynolds, and Matthew Bourne’s Spitfire, featuring his dancers performing...
...“Drinks this eve is a lovely idea so I’ve shared with the E & V team who are in the office,” he wrote in a WhatsApp message, referring to the “events and visits” team....
...‘Richard Batterham: Studio Potter’, until September 26, V&A; vam.ac.uk Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...“When I first started making art I would lead with being a potter more than a conceptual artist. I wore it as a badge of honour. This is a continuation of that making of vessels....
...The piece forms part of Noha’s ongoing project embracing the overlooked history of female potters....
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Writing in her blog in June 2016, potter Harriet Coles echoed the sentiments of the 48 per cent of UK voters who wanted to remain in the EU....
...Job moves Investment fund Gresham House Strategic launched a strategic review after chair David Potter said he plans to retire in September....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
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