CAL Schedule 2012

Ceramic Art London Timetable 2012, Lecture Theatre1, RCA

Friday 24th February

11.30am	Carola Zee - Getting started A case study of the different stages in her career, looking at the importance of networking, publicity, and marketing strategies and exploring the choices and decisions she makes in her work. Carola is a Dutch designer working in Ceramics.
1.30 & 2pm	Take a look behind the scenes: a tour of the Ceramics and Glass department of the Royal College of Art. Meet in the bookshop area in front of the café entrance.
3.30pm	Stephanie Quayle Her fascination for animal-ness and what it is like to be an animal drives her instinctive making process. Her building is direct and energetic and she is able to bring the clay to life through her animal characters. She will talk through her ideas, materials and making process.

Saturday 25th February

11.30am	Hannah Dipper and Robin Farquhar - People Will Always Need Plates Hannah and Robin founded the company after a number of years working in branding, exhibitions, product design and ceramics. They will talk about how the company was born, and how the influence and application of skills from previous commercial work have allowed them to create a strong independent ceramics brand of their own.
1.30pm	Sandy Brown - A Modern Banquet Sandy’s next installation, following on from The Still Point which was a contemporary Tea Ceremony, is A Modern Banquet, in which she is making and designing the objects.
2.30pm	Rob Kesseler - Molecular morsels and micro-botanics, the secret life of plates and banqueting en pleine air. Rob’s work revels in our passions for all things botanical and the desire to celebrate this on the artefacts that inhabit our homes. Mixing art and science he creates elaborate porcelain and china collections that become the agent for unexpected experiences and social interaction.
3.30pm	Dylan Bowen - ‘Trailing, pouring, brushing’ Dylan will demonstrate his ability to capture the spontaneity of working with slip on thrown and altered, and handbuilt works. Talk and Demonstration.

Sunday 26th February

11.30am	Steve Brown - An Integrated Practice Steve Brown will demonstrate a number of methods that illustrate his imaginative approach to surface treatments, combining imagery, and printing with ceramic materials on to clay forms.
2pm	Katie Bunnell A ceramic designer-maker with a particular interest in digital technologies and the creative opportunities they raise. Katie’s practice has involved her in designing and making tableware as a sole trader, and consultancy work for Liberty, Fitch RS, Royal Doulton and Poole Pottery.

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