| Christine-Ann
Richards' Detailed Biography
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DETAILS | |
| Nationality: British | ||
| Profession: Ceramicist | ||
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EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING | |
| 1971-1973 |
Harrow School of Art & Technology under Mick Casson |
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| 1973 |
Apprenticed to Bryan & Julia Newman |
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| 1974 |
Apprenticed to David Leach |
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| 1979-1989 |
University of London - School of Oriental & African Studies.
Full & part-time student in Chinese studies |
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| 1975-1981 |
Established first workshop within the Barbican Arts Group, London |
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| 1982-1992 |
Transferred workshop to own premises at Percy Circus, London |
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| 1992-date | Established new workshop at Chapel House, Somerset | |
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Fellow of the Craftsmen Potters Association and the Society of Designer Craftsmen, Member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen |
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AWARDS & GRANTS | |
| 1983 |
George de Menasce - Oriental Ceramic Society for research into
early Chinese northern whitewares. |
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| 1984 |
Leverhulme - for research, in China, into early ceramics |
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| 1984 |
The Great Britain-China Educational Trust: funding for Chinese
language studies in Beijing |
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| 1985 |
British Council travel award to go to China to attend conference |
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| 1985 |
Crafts Council award to attend International Conference on Ancient
Pottery and Porcelain |
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| 1991 |
Greater London Arts award for moulds for large work |
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| 1993 |
South West Arts Project Award to complete kiln extension |
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| 1995 |
South West Arts funding for exhibition at The Orangery, London |
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| 1996 |
Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to return to Japan to explore
the use of water in landscape and architecture www.wcmt.org.uk |
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| 1996 |
South West Arts Project Award towards developing ideas emanating
from Japan trip |
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| 1997 |
"Somerset Craftsperson 1997" |
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES | |
| 1978 | "Colouring
Glazes" Ceramic Review, No.54 |
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| 1986 |
"Early Northern Whitewares of Gongxian, Xing and Ding" Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society Vol.49 |
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| 1988 |
"Solo Travel in China" The Guardian - September Feature |
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| 1989 |
"China - Ten Years On" Ceramic Review, No.117 |
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| 1991 |
"A Potter's Day" Ceramic Review, No.128 |
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| 1995 |
"Equipment in the Workshop" - The Kiln CPA News No.41 |
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| 1995 |
"The Spirit Way" China Review, Autumn/Winter |
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MAJOR COMMISSIONS | |
| 1992 | Water-Fall Garden for the Royal Hampshire Hospital | |
| 1994 | Large Vase for Charlton Lane, Acute Mental Illness Hospital | |
| 1998 | Water-Feature for Headquarters of Foster Yeoman at Marston House | |
| 2000 | Bird-Bath, Torbay Hospital | |
| 2001 | Commission for nine large works for private client | |
| 2002 | Wave Sculptures for private client | |
| 2004 | Vases for Hampshire Regiment Museum, Serles House, Winchester | |
| 2005 | Wave Sculptures for private client | |
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EXHIBITIONS | |
| Work in public and private collections in England and abroad. | ||
| 1977 |
"New Members" Craftsmen Potters Association, London |
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| 1978 |
"Two Women" Atmosphere, London "English Porcelain" Somers Gallery, Heidelburg, Germany |
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| 1979 |
"British Craftsmen" Kunstindustriemuseum, Bergen, Norway |
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| 1980 |
"Solo" Harvest, London |
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| 1981 |
"A Chinese Journey" with Patrick Procktor, Bohun Gallery Also exhibited in Lucerne, Basle and Geneva |
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| 1982 |
"Paintings & Pots" Falcon House Gallery, SuffolK |
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| 1983 |
"British Ceramics" Galerie An Gross St Martin, Cologne, Germany "Studio Ceramics Today" Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| 1985 |
"Paintings & Pots" Terrace Gallery, Worthing |
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| 1986 |
"Pots" Amalgam, London |
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| 1987 |
"Solo" Castle Museum, Norwich |
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| 1988 |
"New Work" The Orangery, Holland Park, London |
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| 1990 |
With Elisabeth Frink, Terrace Gallery, Worthing "Creative Eye" The Crafts Council at Chelsea |
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| 1991 |
"The Avant Garden" The Oxford Gallery at The Barbican, London "Creative Eye" The Crafts Council at Chelsea |
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| 1992 |
"Creative Eye" The Crafts Council at Chelsea |
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| 1993 |
"Paintings & Pots" Gerald Godfrey Gallery, London, "Chelsea
Craft Fair" "The Stuttgart International Garden Festival" |
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| 1994 |
"Studio Ceramics Today" Victoria & Albert Museum, "Decorative Arts Today" Bonhams, "Hampton Court Palace Flower Show" |
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| 1995 |
"Earth, Fire and Water" The Orangery, Holland Park, London "Society of Designer Craftsmen" at the Mall Galleries "European Ceramics from 1950" Cologne Museum for Applied Arts "Chelsea Crafts Fair" The Crafts Council at Chelsea |
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| 1996 |
"To Have and to Hold" Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester "Hampton Court Palace Flower Show" |
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| 1997 |
"New Work" The Orangery, Holland Park, London. "Fresh Air" |
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| 1998 |
RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show |
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| 1999 |
Exhibition of Porcelain at "Sotheby's Contemporary Decorative
Arts Exhibition" Leda Fletcher Gallery, Geneva. "Fresh Air"
and "The Garden Gallery" |
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| 2000 | "The
Graduates" The Studio Pottery Course at Harrow School of Art 1963-1974, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne. Hampton Court Palace Flower Show "Interior & Exterior" at The Millinery Works, London. |
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| 2001 | The Gallery Upstairs, Henley in Arden. Craft in the Bay, Cardiff. RHS
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show |
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| 2002 | The Society of Designers Craftsmen at the Mall Galleries, Urban Gardens, Olympia, Ronald Emett Gallery, Beaminster, broadway Modern, Worcs. Ferrers
Contemporary Gallery Leics., Art for Giving 2 |
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| 2003 | Urban Gardens, Olympia. "Garden Inspiration" Walford Mill, Wimborne, Dorset "Gound cover" The Devon Guild of Craftsmen Rachel Bebb "The Garden Gallery" |
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| 2004 | SDC at the Mall Galleries; The Sculpture Show at Wyck Rissington & Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury; Maureen Michaelson; Stoberry Park, Wells; Somerset Arts Week |
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| 2005 | SDC at the Mall Galleries; “Black on White” Millinery Works, London; Oxford Arts Week; Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden; “Earth & Fire” |
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| 2006 |
Rachel Bebb “The Garden Gallery”, Art in Clay,
Frome Festival, The Blue House, “Art Outside” Malmesbury
Somerset Arts Week, Open Studio & at Butleigh
10th Southern Ceramics Show, Farnham |
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| 2007 |
Society of Designer Craftsmen at the Mall Galleries,
Devon Guild of Craftsmen “Porcelain”,
“Wessex
& West Country Women Artists”, Bowlish,
50th Anniversary of the Craft Potters Association,
Bevere
“Fresh Air” and “Art in the Garden” Stoberry Park, Wells
Designer Crafts at Chelsea, Morgan Boyce, Marlborough,
11th Southern Ceramics Show, Farnham |
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| 2008 |
SDC at the Mall Galleries, Gants Mill & Garden, Bruton
Rachel Bebb, “The Garden Gallery”, Hybrid Art & Design, Honiton,
Stoberry Park, Frome Festival and Designer Crafts at Chelsea |
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| 2009 |
Society of Designer Craftsmen at the Mall Galleries, |
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| 2010 |
RHS Garden, Wisley, Rachel Bebb, “The Garden Gallery”
Devon Guild of Craftsmen at Plymouth City Museum
Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, Walled Garden, Cannington
Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames |
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| 2011 |
artdejardin, Rutland, Frome Festival & Somerset Arts Week, “Art in the
Garden”, Stoberry Park, Bohun Gallery
The Black Swan Gallery, 25th Anniversary, Frome |
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| 2012 |
East West & Contemporary British Art, Millinery Works,
Frome Festival & Last Open Studio Somerset Arts Week |
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REFERENCES TO WORK | |
| 1979 | "Living with Design" David Hicks Weidenfeld & Nicholson | |
| 1980 | "Studio Porcelain" Peter Lane Pitman | |
| 1983 | "Electric Kiln Pottery" Emmanuel Cooper Batsford Press | |
| 1988 | "Ceramic Form" Peter Lane Collins | |
| 1990 | "A Dictionary of Studio Potters" Pat Carter Scholar Press | |
| 1990 | "British Studio Pottery" The Victoria & Albert Museum | |
| 2000 | "Ceramics for Gardens & Landscapes" Karin Hessenberg, A&C Black | |
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LECTURING, DEMONSTRATIONS & WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE | |
| Ongoing
series of LECTURES; China, and the influence of Chinese ceramics and paintings on my work. Organise and accompany visits to mainland China, for potters and those interested in art and archaeology. |
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| DEMONSTRATIONS
including Art in Action, Waterperry House. 1992 Attended International Ceramics WORKSHOP, Tokoname, Japan |
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| 1996 RESIDENCY at Didcot Girls School | ||
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INTERESTS | |
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| Travelling
and taking other artists and craftsmen to China and Central
Asia, photography, reading, classical music Tai Qi. |
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