Sitting Pretty 2022
Bettina Langlois2023-04-26T15:58:17+01:00Exhibition of chairs
15 October – 12 November 2022
Curated by Tanya Martin
“…chairs are anthropomorphic. They look like us with feet, legs, seat, […]
Making Joy – Fire and Ice
Oliver Kent2022-03-04T19:59:55+00:00Making 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 […]
Form and Function: Geoffrey Whiting’s Teapots
Oliver Kent2021-06-14T16:44:30+01:00Geoffrey 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 […]
Geoffrey Whiting: a potter and a painter
Oliver Kent2022-02-09T13:29:10+00:00Geoffrey 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 […]
Geoffrey Whiting’s Candlesticks for Canterbury Cathedral
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:36:50+01:00You can find candlesticks made by Geoffrey Whiting in Canterbury Cathedral
It is always gratifying, but still all too rare when potters get major commissions. In 1982 Geoffrey Whiting was […]
Bauhaus in Bristol – Otti Berger
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:58:50+01:00It appears that Bristol furniture manufacturer Crofton Gane, whose work with Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer is well known, considered employing leading Bauhaus graduate textile designer Otti Berger to work for him.
Breuer in Bristol Symposium review
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:51:49+01:002019 is the centenary of the founding of Bauhaus in Weimar and there are lots of exhibitions and events worldwide not to mention documentaries and new books. At the restored second Bauhaus in Dessau you […]
Breuer in Bristol Symposium
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:51:14+01:00The Breuer in Bristol Symposium at Arnolfini went very well indeed. Speakers included Christopher Wilk, Keeper of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A, design historians Alan Powers, Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Oliver Kent, […]
