This fully illustrated book accompanies the touring exhibition ‘The Pot, the Vessel, the Object’ and tells the story of the Craft Potters Association (CPA). Since its inception fifty years ago, the CPA has fostered a spirit of community and co-operation, in which potters and ceramists have sought to cultivate and encourage an art form they believe to be truly expressive. It has looked for shared values balanced with an acceptance that ceramics, like any other art medium, has many voices and can take many forms.

The exhibition ‘The Pot, the Vessel, the Object’ marks fifty years of showing, promoting and nurturing studio ceramics and is a perfect opportunity to reflect on the past, present and future. This book confirms the importance of the CPA, and offers a fascinating visual record of the organisation’s development through the decades.

Ceramic Review Publishing is delighted to announce publication of a monograph on the life and work of the distinguished potter Janet Leach (1919-1997), issued to coincide with the first retrospective of her work at Tate St Ives.
The work of Janet Leach – one of the key potters of the twentieth century – brings together a diverse range of influences ranging from early American pottery, traditional Japanese and Korean pots and studio ceramics. Born in the United States she married Bernard Leach in 1956 and lived and worked in St Ives until her death in 1997.
Emmanuel Cooper traces the development of her ideas from the early, more formal pots to the later, freely thrown bottles, many of which bear the marks and scarring of the wood fire. With some 200 images, the book confirms Janet Leach’s status as a gifted and original potter.

The Ceramics Book is a key reference guide to 300 ceramic artists and potters living and working in Britain today, many of whose showrooms and potteries are open to the public. In this illustrated pocket-sized A-Z directory, each potter is represented by a full-colour image of typical work, accompanied by an artist’s statement, portrait of the artist and their signature potter’s mark. All are Fellows and Members of the Craft Potters Association.

The 300 quality illustrations cover functional/domestic ware, sculptural and decorative works and fine art ceramics. This is an excellent aid to buying ceramics direct from makers. Contact details and artists’ portfolio websites are included next to the images and in a handy directory, aided by maps showing the locations of potteries and studios that are open to the public.

The Ceramics Book replaces Potters (12th edition), the directory of Members of the Craft Potters Association, which has been published every few years since 1972.

The life and work of Lucie Rie 1902-1995.
Edited by Emmanuel Cooper.

Lucie Rie (1902-1995) has had a profound influence on the direction of modern ceramics. This fully illustrated, eighty-page book edited by Emmanuel Cooper, brings together new essays and revised texts - some of which appeared in early issues of Ceramic Review magazine - from potters, collectors and friends who admired and were influenced by her life and work.

Cyril Frankel gives a biographical account of her life and background; Edmund de Waal sheds new light on the artistic context within which she trained and worked in Austria, while Alison Britton considers the breadth of Rie's work and the personal rewards that many continue to draw from her legacy. Students and those who worked with Lucie Rie give personal accounts. Previously unpublished making sequences and reproductions of studio notebooks, provide valuable insights into her working practice.