Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) at York Art Gallery showcases the world class collections of 5,000+ works from 20th Century to the present day.
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To celebrate #InternationalCatDay, we wanted to share some purrrfect ceramics included in our Wall of Women display! 😻
They are by South African potter Hylton Nel, made between 1990-1995, and are from the Pat Barnes collection.
© Hylton Nel/York Museums Trust
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They are a gift from the private collection of Patricia Nichol Barnes, presented by the @ContempArtSoc, 2020.
To celebrate our new exhibition ‘The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony’, we have been collaborating with Yorkshire-based artist @stevebceramics to bring you limited edition tea bowls, each one unique! You can reserve this one right now by commenting on this post! 👇
We cannot think of a better way to spend a morning than having wonderful visitors enjoy our displays 💙 Thank you for coming again @RevRichardColes!
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Have you seen our new display - 'Themes' curated by collector Anthony Shaw yet?
It features an exciting display from Shaw’s collection, with the aim of encouraging visitors to view & experience ceramics and art through a new perspective > yorkartgallery.org.uk/exhibi… #RethinkCeramics
✨NEW DISPLAY! ✨‘Themes’ Curated by collector Anthony Shaw has opened in CoCA! The show features an exciting display from Shaw’s collection, with the aim of encouraging visitors to view and experience ceramics and art through a new perspective.
> yorkartgallery.org.uk/exhibi…
This Friday join us and @ICFAberystwyth for a special symposia exploring how ceramics performance adapted in lockdown.
🎟️Book your free place here bit.ly/3y04tae
Featuring Andrew Livingstone, Claire McLaughlin, Angela Tait & Moira Vincentelli!
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Book your free place on our next SSN symposia on 16 June - "Women & Clay: Gendered Form".
We will be joined by USA author Jenni Sorkin, & Dr Jareh Das & @BeccaHone from @TwoTemplePlace
Get your ticket here! > eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and…
#NationalTeaDay has us all excited for our upcoming exhibition! ☕️
This October we'll open 'The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony' which will celebrate the WA Ismay Collection (20 years after it arrived in York)!
More details coming soon! 🫖💕Cheers! #RethinkCeramics
Happy #Easter to everyone, but especially to this stunned looking lamb 🐑
📸1: Figurine, Rockingham Works/Brameld and Company, 1806-1840
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This week's COCA shop highlight is this piece by Terry Davies ✨
He sees his ceramics as a marriage of abstract and classical forms. The warm terracotta colour of this unique pot is very suggestive of the Italian sun!
Find out more about here > centreofceramicart.org.uk/co…
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Exciting news!🎉We've acquired more than 40 ceramic works, part of a collection belonging to the late American collector Patricia Barnes.
It includes significant works from 1970s to 2000s, by artists such as Carol McNichol, Alison Britton & Quentin Bell > yorkartgallery.org.uk/news-m…
Join us on the 23rd March for our 'Restating Clay: There’s much work to be done …' symposia!
We'll explore the future of research and collections, engagement with the press, digital opportunities and exhibition activism!
Book your ticket now > eventbrite.co.uk/e/restating…
This week's COCA shop highlight is this piece by Steve Booton! ✨
Steve often uses simple tea bowl forms in his work, & this eye-catching chawan has gold brush strokes in squares alternating with the white undecorated ceramic surface.
Find out more > centreofceramicart.org.uk/co…
This week's COCA shop highlight is this piece by Darrell Milnes. ✨
Milnes works in Sheffield and his functional pottery is always popular in our CoCA Shop!
Find out more here > centreofceramicart.org.uk/co…
This week's COCA shop highlight is this beautiful piece by Katie Braida.✨She lives in Scarborough, hand building & using a range of clays, under-glazes & oxides to produce the colours in her work, which is unglazed.
Find out more about the piece here > centreofceramicart.org.uk/co…
Join us for an exciting two-part online symposia, on the 23rd & 25th February where we'll explore the sustainable pottery studio & how pottery participation through our studios and communities sustains the self through wellbeing!
> eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainin…
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This week's COCA shop highlight is this piece by Maggie Zerafa.✨
The crystalline glaze effects seen in her work are the results of repeated kiln firings at very high temperatures, producing the shimmering surface seen in this tea bowl
Find out more > centreofceramicart.org.uk/co…
Thank you to all that joined us for the first Restating Clay Symposia!✨
The next online event is on the 2nd February! We'll welcome Ayumi Horie as she discusses the projects Pots in Action and The Democratic Cup, community building and activism.
> eventbrite.co.uk/e/curating-…
Well today is #SquirrelAppreciationDay 😂
'Pinning Down Beauty' by Kerry Jameson is a sculptural taxidermy group comprising a ceramic fox with faux fur fox resting in front of a raspberry bush with perched birds and mice. A frog, a squirrel and a mole are on the ground.
