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Author Archives: Oliver Kent
Picturing Lockdown – The Pandemic Diaries and other projects
PICTURING LOCKDOWN – The Pandemic Diaries and other projects In November last year at the start of the second lockdown our Education officer David Beech began to meet with students and their tutors to discuss collaborative projects relating to the … Continue reading
Robin Welch (1936-2019)
Student Holly John reviews the work of potter/painter Robin Welch in our collection. Holly is a third year on the BA (Hons) History course at UWE Robin Welch (1936 – 2019) Robin Welch is, was, and remains, a highly respected … Continue reading
Posted in Ceramics, Crafts, Painting and Sculpture
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When is a Teapot not a Teapot?
UWE History student Holly John reviews the work of potter Oliver Kent. These exuberant teapots are a playful twist on an archetypal ceramic object. When I visited the Ken Stradling Collection, I was drawn to them because of their irregularity … Continue reading
Posted in Ceramics, Crafts
Tagged Goro Suzuki, handbuilt ceramics, Oliver Kent, Ollie Kent, raku, studio ceramics, Studio Pottery, subversive ceramics, teapot
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Julia Donnelly spills the glass beads! Everything you need to know about lampworking
Glass jewellery maker Julia Donnelly writes about the making of her delightful beads. Lampwork is an ancient skill and a process ideally suited to small workshop practice. Her work is featured in the Ken Stradling Collection‘s exhibition ‘Making Joy – … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Crafts, Glass
Tagged glass beads, glass jewellery, glassmaking, hot glass, studio glass
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Don’t miss ‘Making Joy: Fire and Ice’ – one more month to visit
Celebrating Bristol’s long history of making beautiful glass we are shining a spotlight on this exciting world of ‘fire and ice’. The Ken Stradling Collection at 48 Park Row, Bristol are using their windows as the exhibition space. In this … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Crafts, Glass
Tagged Bristol Blue Glass, Cat Mack Glass, Exhibition, glass artist, glass blowing, studio glass, Whitefriars Glass
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Getting Hooked on Glassblowing
Our current window show celebrates the potential of glass to brighten our lives. Not everyone knows our KSC Manager Julia Donnelly is also a glass-artist. Nowadays she makes glass jewellery – here she describes her journey into glass and the … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Crafts, Glass
Tagged glass artist, glass blowing, hot glass, London Glassblowing, Peter Layton, studio glass
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Making Joy – Fire and Ice
Making Joy – Fire and Ice is our latest Covid-19 safe, street viewable, show at the Stradling Collection in Park Row, Bristol. It is on from 17 December 2020 – 28 February 2021 and is a joyous, bright exhibition for … Continue reading
Form and Function: Geoffrey Whiting’s Teapots
Geoffrey Whiting’s teapots are the forms for which he remains best known, having achieved a design that is at once highly functional, but also good to look at as a piece of working sculpture. It is one that combines all … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century Design, Ceramics, Crafts, Modernism
Tagged David Whiting, Exhibition, form, form and function, Geoffrey Whiting, Mid-century Modern, modernist, porcelain, Pottery, Studio Pottery, teapot
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Geoffrey Whiting: a potter and a painter
Geoffrey Whiting had an important parallel activity as a watercolour painter, but this is a lesser known area of his art. His great knowledge of the natural world underpinned all his creativity. It was there in the coloration of his pots, … Continue reading