NEIL BROWNSWORD (UK): Masterclass & Tutorials: PART 2

For nearly a decade, Neil Brownsword’s work has been a sustained mediation on the decline of British ceramic manufacture in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent - a first hand knowledge that has accrued since he was apprenticed at the age of 16, at the Josiah Wedgwood factory. Assuming the role of artist/archaeologist, Brownsword unearths/ salvages by-products from the histories ceramic production and regenerates these symbolically charged vestiges of labour into poetic abstract amalgams. Throug h its metaphoric exploration of absence, fragmentation and the discarded, his work signifies the inevitable effects of global capitalism which continue to disrupt indigenous skills and a heritage economy rooted in North Staffordshire for nearly three centuries.

In 2009 he won the One Off category at the British Ceramic Biennial, and continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally.

Neil Brownsword is an artist, senior lecturer and researcher at Buckinghamshire New University. His PhD thesis (completed in 2006) combined historical and archaeological research on ceramic production in North Staffordshire from the eighteenth century to the present; the film archiving of craft skills in the industry today; and the creation of a body of artwork in response to this research. The resultant ‘narrative’ sheds light upon Britain’s contemporary “post-industrial” experience as well as its industrial past

Arbeidsform:

Masterclass Workshop, Tutorials & Lectures/Film Screenings

Krav til forkunnskaper:

Kurset starter 25.10.2010 / Uke 43, og varer til 29.10.2010 / Uke 43

Sted: Ceramic Studios, Strømgaten 1.

Tilbyder: Speskunst
Keramikk
Veiledning - Tutorials

Målgruppe: Keramikk
Alle studenter

Årstrinn: Bachelor 2
Bachelor 3
Master 1

Antall plasser: 12

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