Canadian Clay Symposium: Diversity in Clay
Saturday March 23
Symposium Presenters

Peter King
“Ut was love at first towch, says Plorida ceramist Peter King of the
time when a fellow student introduced him toclay. It wasn't blind

love however — Peter finished his degree at the University of
West Flonda before surrendering to the addiction of clay.

“Establishing a studio in 1977, he set about producing functional
ware to pay bills while developing plans for nore large scale
projects such as wall murals, fireplace fronts, door frames, sinks
and bathtubs. Since then, ap- a
proximately a hundred archi-
tectural ceramic works have
come out of his Pensacola stu-
dio, He refers to this work as
clay carpentry.”

Cindy Morrison, Contact Ce-
ramics: A Canadian Per-
spective, 43.

For these whe tire af pots,
architectural ceramics can be
ad whole new career without
having to give up clay. Peter
King, Contact Ceramics 36.

Paul Mathieu

Atthe symposium, Paul will present material from his upcoming
book on erotic ceramics. The book to be published by A&C Black
in Fall 2002, is tithd SEXPOTS: Eroticism in Ceramics. It
features the work of almost 100 comtemporary artists from all
over the world, The book also contains two chapters on the
historical context, Neolithic to the twentieth century, with one of
these chapters focusing on the maiolica of the Italian Renaissance
written by Catherine Hess at the Getty Museurn. Paul will present
various examples, both historical and contemporary, to ilhwstrate
a number of questions raised by this type of work in the context
of political issues, popular culture, mythologies, bodies and
organic abstraction. He will also set wp a small display of erotic
ceramics from his collection.

Atthe panel discussion onAesthetics of Form, he will collaborate
with Clary [lian in an exchange of ideas on the importance of
form and beauty in ceramics and pottery. A few examples alneacly
discussed in the Sexpots talk will be used here in a different
context to make a very different kind of point.

Thanks!

Hope you had a good holiday season and
wishing you all the best in 2002
from the statf here at Greenbarn:
Stan, Jeff, Casey. Phil, Harmeny, Eva, Christine,
Dan, Ryan, Chad and Dave.
See you all af Canadian Clay in March.

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January 2002

Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter